On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:07:25PM +0200, Martin Hansen wrote:
> Is it possible to combine letters with an address database, so that i
> get ex. 10 letters where only the 'to address' is different?
> I can't find anything in the documentation, about this.
> My lyx version is 1.1.5fix1.
>
I have done this with a hackish combination of Lyx and perl.
I create a letter template in LyX, putting in things like:
YYYYY
ZZZZZ
Dear XXXXXX,
I format the leter and preview it, making sure I like the result.
Then I export the address database into a flat file (one record per line).
My perl script then reads each line, doing something like:
my $num = 0;
while (<INPUT>) {
<<Create temp_letter by doing the substitutions into the template>>
system("lyx --export ps temp_letter.lyx");
$num++;
rename("temp_letter.ps", "letter_".$num.".lyx");
}
Afterwards, I just print letter_1.ps, letter_2.ps, etc.
This works because the lyx file is a simple ASCII file.
---Kayvan
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Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids:
Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89)
http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
