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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Prettty printed reports in MSWindows
Date: 02 May 2003 18:58:51 +0200
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Fionn mac Cuimhaill <invisible@hiding.from.spam> writes:

> I am also considering writing output as TeX or LaTex and using a
> Windows implementation of TeX, such as MikTeX to handle the details of
> printing.

texinfo is maybe simpler to generate, you can also use the tetex Cygwin
package which works fine.

I would use a texinfo "templates" and use Templates_Parser to replace tags by
the corresponding values, then call tetex for the final rendering.

Pascal.

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