New Members ⇒ Yet another noob

[alanq]

Hi All

I'm a Physical Sciences graduate, but that's well in the past. Professional geek now.

I'm writing a script (bash, sed, awk, ...) to help in the management of membership lists. Part of the task is to produce mailing labels. First I thought I'd invoke Abiword's command-line mail-merge feature, but it's a big program for such a simple task (and is broken in my version). Then I remembered ImageMagick, and I read Anthony Thyssen's words at ImageMagick v6 Examples -- Text to Image Handling: "...use the right tool for the right job." This made me remember Latex, which would indeed appear to be the right tool for the job.

And now I'm here with my questions...

I was pleased to find the LaTeX Resources for Beginners topic -- helped get me back into Latex having dabbled several years ago. Thank you, Stefan_K.

Cheers
Alan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Alan,

welcome to the board!

Stefan

[localghost]

LaTeX can be the right tool for many jobs. And might be the right one for your project.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten