On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:51 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
X-Original-To: brownh localhost hartford-hwp com From: "Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca> Cc: Gnumeric Dev List <gnumeric-list gnome org> Organization: Taliesin Software Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 09:14:19 -0700 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at hartford-hwp.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: On Sun, 2005-27-02 at 07:24 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I'm in a position of having to begin using gnumeric to handle the > membership of a large organization, with very little experience in > gnumeric and none at all in Excel. > > I've entered much of the data, and know that eventually I'll need to > print labels from it. I don't use a word processor, but LaTeX (with > emacs under Debian sarge). > > I'm told that gnumeric-->TeX is the conventional way of doing labels, > but I'm uncertain how to go about that. This may be the conventional way to do labels but it is not the easy way. I would export the data from Gnumeric into a csv file and then use glabels, a program specifically designed to print labels. I have always found doing labels in TeX or LaTeX to be more of a pain than worth the trouble. (I do virtually everything else in LaTeX.) I'll defintely look into glabels, but I assume that I'll not get the typographic quality one expects from LaTeX.
Of course not. But we are talking about labels...
I'd like to at least try to get LaTeX to work, but if I'm overwhelmed by the effort, I'll beat a retreat to your suggeted glabels, which sounds easy. I suspect that in LaTeX I'd have to devise a script to handle a CSV file.
The csvtools package (a LaTeX package) is quite useful when handling csv files. Occasionally I use that package so that I can export csv files from LaTeX to create personalized exams. Andreas -- Andreas J. Guelzow, Professor & Coordinator Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences Concordia University College of Alberta
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