From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 1 18:11:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EE510656A3 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 18:11:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308F98FC13 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 18:11:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=bqq2Vc5EAAAA:8 a=cDICXkpnfijiDs_wE6sA:9 a=4c0-t6TzWIKtkdwFP80A:7 a=0qwM7n_smFr4f3SITDdvqMRFk9gA:4 a=5ERLOmoKdHQA:10 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 75.87.219.217 Received: from [75.87.219.217] ([75.87.219.217:62495] helo=haran.polands.org) by hrndva-oedge03.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.39 r()) with ESMTP id 39/CC-13308-9BA3E3B4; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:11:06 +0000 Received: from [172.16.1.37] (sichem-wifi.polands.org [172.16.1.37]) by haran.polands.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o01IB5MW033044; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:11:05 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Message-ID: <4B3E3AB9.40306@polands.org> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:11:05 -0600 From: Doug Poland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Polytropon References: <4B3E3121.6060106@polands.org> <20100101184219.6cd84f19.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100101184219.6cd84f19.freebsd@edvax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced printing/layout tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:11:07 -0000 On 2010-01-01 11:42, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:30:09 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've been tasked to print a phonebook style directory for an >> organization. The data will be coming out of a MySQL database and can >> be easily saved as comma-delimited, or whatever text format I need. >> >> My specific question is, what open source tools would one use to tackle >> a project like this? I'm very comfortable in a CLI and do not >> require/desire a GUI. > > I'd suggest to use awk + LaTeX. I've been very happy with this > combination for a various number of tasks - just as you mentioned: > Data coming from some kind of database (MySQL, CSV or whatever) > and should then be layouted. > > Thanks for the info. I had a feeling I'd be introduced to LaTeX sooner or later. Should be plenty of web resources for such a venerable tool. -- Regards, Doug