On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Yuri de Groot wrote: ... > I maintain an address list for a young adults group at church > (young in this group is 19-50ish). > If I could cobble together some sort of database with some > sort of scripted tool to produce a printed phonelist, that would > be cool. I currently use openoffice. ...
Hi Yuri, addressbook (the package is called addrbo in SuSE 7.3) can hold all address data, and it offers LaTeX export. I have not yet tested the LaTeX export. But it should also be fairly simple to generate the address DB in some standard-delimiter format, either VCF, or maybe CSV, and then process this with awk to generate the LaTeX input. Perl could also do the job. One thing that has not yet been mentioned is that it is actually also quite simple to generate Postscript automatically. So why not generate PS directly without the LaTeX detour?! Cheers, Helmut. +----------------+ | Helmut Walle | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +----------------+
