On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 18:08 -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > Latex may be great for you but if I walk into an office and say, "Sue, > > here is how you customize templates" and its tex? I might as well walk > > back out, cause she will have none of it. > > If you are dreaming of a situation in which LedgerSMB is used *and > customized* by "average" office workers, I'd say LaTeX is the least of > your worries.
Spoken like a true geek. This isn't hard folks. The web has the whole print thing down as long as you are using a modern browser. Simple web-pdf tools exist as well. > > Realistically, installing and customizing LedgerSMB is currently done > by Linux and FOSS geeks, and I don't see that changing any time soon. You just made my point. One of my goals for 2.0 is to change that or at least make large leaps toward it. > So I would say it's best to use the best tools for the job, and LaTeX > is about the best there is for generating printed output. Again, I am not advocating the removal of latex (well I am, but it isn't something I am willing to put any energy into.) > > > We *need* at least as an option to provide simple, easy to modify, > > preferably from the browser, templates. > > How many people have asked for that? (Just curious.) Every single quickbooks and peachtree user. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;226879339;13503038;l? http://clk.atdmt.com/CRS/go/247765532/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
