On Monday 31 May 2010 10:31:04 Drew Vogel wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:04 AM, John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>wrote: > > On Monday 31 May 2010 00:43:43 Drew Vogel wrote: > > > I am working on an application that will generate a scribus > > > > document from a > > > > > database of survey questions. > > > > But there is a solution that provides maximum benefit with least effort. > > In your situation my only question would be, which flavor of TeX? A > > Scribus solution will require far more effort on your behalf. > > Indeed TeX, or any other markup language, would be far easier for me. > However the output of this program is not intended to go straight to print. > It will only generate the first draft of the document. There is a long, > unpredictable editing process afterward. Our staff already have a wealth of > expereince using scribus for this editing process. If the output of my > program isn't a scribus document, they will just continue to work manually. > > Thanks for your suggestion. It just won't work for our organization in the > near future. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100531/73e377bf/ >attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
And they can't learn how to edit text in a plain text document using Vim or Emacs? I am pushing age 78 and I learn new things all the time. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
