I would like to write letters using some mail-merge or text merge procedure under ConTeXt. Could you please help me indicating where should I start with and, above all, giving some example of that? Thanks a lot Vittorio
Alle 20:43, mercoledì 22 febbraio 2006, vittorio ha scritto:
I would like to write letters using some mail-merge or text merge procedure under ConTeXt. Could you please help me indicating where should I start with and, above all, giving some example of that?
Perhaps I need to be more precise!! What I've been doing for some years has been to send some 1800 2-page letters in a shot. What change are the addresses of the recipients and some small parts of the text according to certain circumstances. Years ago I dismissed the mail-merge capabilities of MS-Word because it was unable to deal with that amount of letters. So I tailored a *-sty file for my letters and started to use latex with the textmerge. Bingo, it was THE solution! Now I want to give ConTeXt a chance. I mean that a Context doc seems to me more "readable" and "intuitive" than latex. So I would have a go with ConTeXt to solve the same problem. Ciao Vittorio
Am 2006-02-22 um 23:05 schrieb vittorio:
Alle 20:43, mercoledì 22 febbraio 2006, vittorio ha scritto:
I would like to write letters using some mail-merge or text merge procedure under ConTeXt. Could you please help me indicating where should I start with and, above all, giving some example of that?
I would use a script that pulls the addresses from the database and writes the ConTeXt code for each; you could define some \Letter {Address} macro to reduce redundance. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
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