On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:12, Steve Holdoway wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:44:07 +1300 > > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:29, Nick Rout wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:13:44 +1300 > > > > > > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > > Cutting and pasting some 31,000 clauses in some glorious GUI of a > > > > word processor. Well, I'm nearly 63 now, and I honestly don't > > > > think I have got enough time before the Grim Reaper pushes me off > > > > this mortal coil. Anyways you know what food processors do to your > > > > tucker? Well I'm somewhat anxious that the words avoid a similar > > > > fate. > > > > > > > > Initial fiddling as suggested by Volker suggest that LaTeX is the > > > > way to go. Many thanks V. > > > > > > I take it that the 31,000 clauses cannot be concatenated into one > > > text file then? > > > > Correct. > > > > The 31,000 clauses have to be printed on to many hundreds of small > > pages about the same size as a 5x4 card, according to their contexts, > > together with other info such as illustrations and commentary. It's > > going to be an interesting 'exercise'. > > > > -- > > CS > > ...did a similar thing building up a catalog. css for the formatting, > and content in a database. LAMP solution. Got some code snippets ( I > used etomite CMS ) around if they're any use? Thanks for the thought. I want to hack on it a bit more using LaTeX and pdf before I give up on doing it that way. So far it looks promising. It's a LAPP - PostgresQL solution. So far all's going well.
-- CS
