Re: A newbie asks about printing labels

[Martin Sevior <msevior physics unimelb edu au>]

On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 10:11 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> > > I'm told that gnumeric-->TeX is the conventional way of doing labels,
> > > but I'm uncertain how to go about that. Can anyone point me to a
> > > source of information or offer a little guidance?
>  
> > Hi Haines,
> >            The simplest is to export your gnumeric data file to a csv then
> > use AbiWord to generate the mailing labels.
> >
> > See:
> >
> > http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/howto/howtomailmerge.html
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Martin
>
> Thanks, Martin. I would have guessed you could do the labels via
> AbiWord, but I'd really prefer LaTeX for several reasons.
>
> What is a "csv"?
Comma Separated Variables.

Your gnumeric file gets dumped to text with each cell separated by a
comma.

You could possibily hook up a little script to convert this into latex
with a "\pagebreak" between each row.

Cheers

Martin

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