On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:31:46PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
> All I need to find is how to do the SLUG fests posters (have some
> ideas) and how to do mail merge (have no ideas).
I've done posters, flyers and mail-outs in LaTeX.
Unfortunately, I can't lay my hands on any of the source. It's
about ten years old if it exists anywhere.
> So if someone can tell me which package to include to make text fill a
> box, I will try a Installfest poster.
>
> \resizebox{!}{5cm}{SLUG}
I don't think I've ever been able to do that with LaTeX alone, but
you can do it with help from PostScript. Use xfig or similar to
put the text into an .eps file, and then use one of the LaTeX figure
packages to specify its size and place. Crufty, but I suspect that
LaTeX cringes at the thought of manually warping fonts...
> I do not know which package to use to make the above work (for those
> who know.
I'd suspect that these days there are probably packages
specifically for mail merge operations, but when I did it at
Uni, I wrote the letter as a macro body, and had a sed script
translate the mailing list database into an enormous file of
calls to the letter macro, with the details as arguments. When
LaTeX'd that produced all of the letters.
As I said, there are probably better ways to do it...
> I am open to suggestions for a latex aware text editor (No, NOT emacs
> - sorry, but I'm too used to a delete key)
??? I've been using xemacs 20.4 since it came out, and the
delete key works fine. Under X, anyway. Key mapping gets a
little funky when running in a terminal. I use vi in terminals.
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Andrew
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