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[Gnumed-devel] Proposed forms system
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Ian Haywood |
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[Gnumed-devel] Proposed forms system |
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Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:19:59 +1100 |
Please have a look in gnumed/test-area/ian
This is a putative forms/letters system for gnumed, based on LaTeX
The file a4form.cls is a LaTeX class file. Put it in the TeX search
path (on Debian /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/a4form/) then run
"texhash" as root to make sure TeX can find it.
The module accepts a LaTeX file and a dictionary.
The dictionary is translated to set of TeX macros,
which can be used in the document. The document can be any LaTeX
document, however a special class (a4form) is defined to print
text at specific positions.
Advantages:
- one-stop-shop: scripts, forms, letters can all be expressed as
templates.
- high quality output
- totally free (including the fonts)
- can run without a GUI, such as on a server
- cross-platform, including Windows
Disadvantages
- old-fashioned (TeX dates back to mid-1980s)
- big dependency (about the same size as wxWindows DLL)
Ian
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