Re: Form Letters

>Has anyone done an application which is required to generate form letters? In >my case, most of the text is boilerplate with a rare embedded field. I would >prefer not to rig an interface to a word processor unless there is no other >choice. Printing straight text from a table of boilerplate is no problem >but I'm curious if anyone has developed a technique for adjusting the line >when inserting a variable into a line. What we do here (and we do a LOT of form letters) is to have the report produce a TeX file. We've written a shell script that mimics lpr (or lp on SYSV), that runs TeX on what it's given before issueing the lpr command. By writing the shell script the way we did, we can use 4GLs ``report to pipe'' command to print the letters. We have used this approch successfully on everything from SPARCs to AT&T 3B2s. jeffl ---- Jeffrey F. Lawhorn Information Systems Group Programming Manager Unix, C, and Database Consulting jfl0@isg.com 450 B Street 16th Floor sdsu!isg100!jfl0 San Diego, CA 92101 (619) 234-3405 x274