On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 11:47:26AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Klaus [iso-8859-15] Ramst?ck wrote: > > > is it possible to have a special layout invoice, derived, say, from > > letter. It should be able to sum up items, compute taxes, build a total > > and call the bad guys after payment is due > 3 months. > > My recommendation is to turn around your idea. Use a database back end > (postgres, for example) for your accounts receivable system. Then, when you > want to generate an invoice, feed the details to a LyX (or LaTeX) template > that prints the invoice for you. Dunning letters for overdue accounts also > would be created by LyX based on the results of a database query on the A/R > system.
You might want to check out sql-ledger (http://www.sql-ledger.org). It has all this built in, including LaTeX output of invoices, etc. -Ryan -- Ryan T. McBride, CISSP - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Countersiege Systems Corporation - http://www.countersiege.com PGP key fingerprint = 8BA0 A58C 5038 9157 59C3 F9E6 6DDA 6611 BF4C 776B
