Re: Database Publishing with AbiWord?

From: John R. Culleton <john_at_wexfordpress.com>
Date: Tue Jan 31 2006 - 23:42:15 CET

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 04:10 pm, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> does anyone do Database Publishing with AbiWord? How suitable is it for
> this kind of work?
>
> I.e. "building" long, strongly structured documents semi-automatically out
> of blocks of structured text that need to be formatted as well as lots of
> numbers ans short strings that need to be filtered and processed to be
> filled lots of page-long into human-readable tables, the textblocks,
> strings and numbers all being stored in a database for easy maintenance...
>
> TIA,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Wolfgang Keller
I have used TeX for creating a book from the output of dbms
reports. I wouldn't consider Abiword or any word procaessor
as an optimum instrument for such applications.

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