On 2010-01-01 11:42, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:30:09 -0600, Doug Poland<d...@polands.org> wrote:
Hello,
I've been tasked to print a phonebook style directory for an
organization. The data will be coming out of a MySQL database and can
be easily saved as comma-delimited, or whatever text format I need.
My specific question is, what open source tools would one use to tackle
a project like this? I'm very comfortable in a CLI and do not
require/desire a GUI.
I'd suggest to use awk + LaTeX. I've been very happy with this
combination for a various number of tasks - just as you mentioned:
Data coming from some kind of database (MySQL, CSV or whatever)
and should then be layouted.
Thanks for the info. I had a feeling I'd be introduced to LaTeX sooner
or later. Should be plenty of web resources for such a venerable tool.
--
Regards,
Doug
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