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From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
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Subject: Re: gtkada/glade info needed
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:52:22 +0200
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Charles Hixson wrote in message <39E1F46C.414A798E@earthlink.net>...
>Could you please elaborate a little bit on "any of the many ...".  I
>don't know of any available report generators.  Since I am stuck on
>windows while at work, this is an interesting option. The ones that I
>know of are commercial, which, practically speaking, means unavailable
>(unless they also work on Linux, then I might purchase a copy for my own
>use, and if the license permitted and a version were available, I could
>use it also at work).


There is a theoretical chance that either TeX og LaTeX could be coopted into
becoming the back end of a report generator. That would ofcourse require some
programming both to generate the (la)tex source file and various support
routines.

Worthwhile? Don't know. Depends on how badly you need it. The output would
probably be very nice.


Greetings,