personalized circular letter
hello, Lyx is a really professional tool to write good things! Now, i want to write a letter for the members of our charitable organization. Is it possible, to write personalized circular letter (german: Serienbrief), using an existing database (Ms Access, possibly exported as CSV)? this option would be really useful in Lyx! Thanks! Sincerely yours Christian
Re: personalized circular letter
Christian Kuhn schrieb: Lyx is a really professional tool to write good things! Now, i want to write a letter for the members of our charitable organization. Is it possible, to write personalized circular letter (german: Serienbrief), using an existing database (Ms Access, possibly exported as CSV)? This is possible. LyX's examples folder contains an example address database and 3 example LyX files showing how this is done. regards Uwe
Re: personalized circular letter
Christian Kuhn schrieb: but these are own layouts. Is it possible to use it in dinbrief or g-brief2, too? No, you need to use the Koma-Script letter class. But this class has the same features as the g-brief classes and even more. First, i have to export the .mdp to .txt/csv. Then this file to .adr? (– search suitable tools/converters) It should be easy to program a csv2adr converter. When this is not possible for you, look at the koma-script documentation ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/scrguide.pdf) what can be done. When you don't find anything there, ask at http://komascript.de/ (German website) I'm sure that some of the koma-script users already programmed a converter. (Googling gives me this converter: http://www.komascript.de/node/94 ) Would be nice, if these infos would be ‚findable‘ in the Wiki. It is not yet in the Wiki, so please create a Wiki page when you got it working for you. I could post your answers in the Ubuntuusers-Forum. Sure. regards Uwe
personalized circular letter
hello, Lyx is a really professional tool to write good things! Now, i want to write a letter for the members of our charitable organization. Is it possible, to write personalized circular letter (german: Serienbrief), using an existing database (Ms Access, possibly exported as CSV)? this option would be really useful in Lyx! Thanks! Sincerely yours Christian
Re: personalized circular letter
Christian Kuhn schrieb: Lyx is a really professional tool to write good things! Now, i want to write a letter for the members of our charitable organization. Is it possible, to write personalized circular letter (german: Serienbrief), using an existing database (Ms Access, possibly exported as CSV)? This is possible. LyX's examples folder contains an example address database and 3 example LyX files showing how this is done. regards Uwe
Re: personalized circular letter
Christian Kuhn schrieb: but these are own layouts. Is it possible to use it in dinbrief or g-brief2, too? No, you need to use the Koma-Script letter class. But this class has the same features as the g-brief classes and even more. First, i have to export the .mdp to .txt/csv. Then this file to .adr? (– search suitable tools/converters) It should be easy to program a csv2adr converter. When this is not possible for you, look at the koma-script documentation ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/scrguide.pdf) what can be done. When you don't find anything there, ask at http://komascript.de/ (German website) I'm sure that some of the koma-script users already programmed a converter. (Googling gives me this converter: http://www.komascript.de/node/94 ) Would be nice, if these infos would be ‚findable‘ in the Wiki. It is not yet in the Wiki, so please create a Wiki page when you got it working for you. I could post your answers in the Ubuntuusers-Forum. Sure. regards Uwe
personalized circular letter
hello, Lyx is a really professional tool to write good things! Now, i want to write a letter for the members of our charitable organization. Is it possible, to write personalized circular letter (german: Serienbrief), using an existing database (Ms Access, possibly exported as CSV)? this option would be really useful in Lyx! Thanks! Sincerely yours Christian
Re: personalized circular letter
Christian Kuhn schrieb: Lyx is a really professional tool to write good things! Now, i want to write a letter for the members of our charitable organization. Is it possible, to write personalized circular letter (german: Serienbrief), using an existing database (Ms Access, possibly exported as CSV)? This is possible. LyX's examples folder contains an example address database and 3 example LyX files showing how this is done. regards Uwe
Re: personalized circular letter
Christian Kuhn schrieb: but these are own layouts. Is it possible to use it in dinbrief or g-brief2, too? No, you need to use the Koma-Script letter class. But this class has the same features as the g-brief classes and even more. First, i have to export the .mdp to .txt/csv. Then this file to .adr? (–> search suitable tools/converters) It should be easy to program a csv2adr converter. When this is not possible for you, look at the koma-script documentation ftp://ftp.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/scrguide.pdf) what can be done. When you don't find anything there, ask at http://komascript.de/ (German website) I'm sure that some of the koma-script users already programmed a converter. (Googling gives me this converter: http://www.komascript.de/node/94 ) Would be nice, if these infos would be ‚findable‘ in the Wiki. It is not yet in the Wiki, so please create a Wiki page when you got it working for you. I could post your answers in the Ubuntuusers-Forum. Sure. regards Uwe
