Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

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.)

> Can anyone point me to a
> source of information or offer a little guidance?
>
> And a newbie question about the suitability of my organization of data
> in gnumeric for printing labels. I have put addresses in three
> columns: a) a column, usually empty, but available for cases where
> there might be either a c/o or a two-line street address, b) a street
> address, and c) city-state-zip.

This sounds okay to me.

Andreas

-- 
Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences
Concordia University College of Alberta