On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:19, Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:24:18 +1300 > > Carl Cerecke wrote: > > Another option is to have your script automatically generate an OOo > > opendocument format file. Something like PyOpenOffice might be > > sufficient. > > > > But I'd still do it in LaTeX. > > > > Cheers, > > Carl. > > Is there a python package for scripting the making of [La]Tex documents? > > This http://www.pytex.org/ doesn't look particularly active. > > Also worth mentioning - someone has mentioned scribus, which does have > built in hooks for python programming. It might be a handy way of > implementing what Chris wants to do, and it has native pdf support. That is indeed the next preferred method. ATM the 'shell-script -> PostgreSQL -> pdflatex -> pdf' method seems to be more than satisfactory. I have to create something in the human time scale so that precludes having to spend a lot of time learning about the latest and greatest outputs from the demented savant community. I also want to use tried and tested methods so I can be reasonably sure that any 'undocumented features' are my responsibility and not that of the authors of the packages I use.
Thanks for the help everybody. -- CS
