Rich Shepard wrote:
This is a LaTeX question rather than a LyX question, so I hope that you
indulge my posting here first.
I created a LaTeX document to be used as the basis for printing Optical
Mark Readable (OMR) forms. The content of each form will change from one
use
to the next. That is, the number of lines may vary, and the contents of
each
string certainly will. The files holding the strings to be used on the form
are in a disk file as ASCII text. My two questions are:
1) Can I programmatically (preferable using Python, C, or LaTeX) add
these
strings to the form?
you can use any programming language for this. I prefer Perl.
For a complicated appointment calendar for about 500 people
I create with a Perl script the latex file (the data is from
a mysql data base), then run from within Perl pdflatex on the script.
The generated pdf is sent via email to the user.
Herbert
