[Sussex] Sample PS or Latex Mail Merging

[John Crowhurst]

> Okay, Ive hit a hurdle and me brains hurting... Ive Googled, Man'd and
> less FAQ'd my way through pages and pages of commentary and im still no
> way closer to a definitive answer to the question(s) which are .
>
> 1. How can I get a Postscript file into Latex

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ps2dvi/?topic_id=861%2C852

> 2. How can I edit sed file to allow me to use it for merging with data

Perhaps have a loop that reads in the records of your data that you are
merging from and a loop that reads in the fields of your record and writes
out s/field/replacement/ for each line.

TeX (pronounced tech), is a text based processing language, so changing
the text with sed will be no problem.

> 3. How can I create a useful latex document for Mail Merges.

You could create the document in LyX: http://www.lyx.org/

> from there I can export latextopdf and send nice pdf files to people.
http://www.stefanheimann.net/software/dvi2pdf

> anyone else had more experience than I ?

I played with LaTex a long while back, while I was bored at college. Not
much experience bar knowing what the format is called.

--
John