Re: Help with database publishing

carl.t.mosley writes: > The UNIX tbl formatter has severe limits, using the "T{" commands, on the > number of wrapped fields in a table. I have tried everything and have stumped > several tbl experts. > > So beyond using these formatters, what else can I do? I highly recommend LaTeX/TeX. I can't guarantee that you'll be able to do exactly what you want, but I'll be surprised if you can't. Advantages: * You can get a free copy (mail me if you can't find out where). * Some good (hell, even *funny* !) books out on both. * Stable and widely used. * Newsgroups which will help you. * Designed for phototypesetting. * Previewers available for X and Sunview. * Easy to incorporate the (ASCII) formatting commands in report output. * Should be faster than spreadsheets. Disadvantages: * Cryptic, fairly hard to learn. * Secretaries, etc., will *far* prefer a spreadsheet. * No local help ? (contrast with tbl & spreadsheets). > I think that a good > possibility is outputting the data in delimited format which can be pulled > into a spreadsheet. I know that Excel 3.0 can handle wordwrap in a cell, > but the string length is limited. What about Wingz? Can it handle text well? > With Wingz maybe I can actually link to the database and select the data > directly instead of using flat files. > One other option is to somehow use WordPerfect's macro language to develop > a routine to pull data into a table. Personally, I'd *hate* to do that :-) However, best of luck if you go that way. > Carl Mosley > ctm@mvune.att.com Just a thought ... Cheers - Tony. __________________________________________________________________________ Tony Heskett th@bnr.co.uk Voice: (+44) 279 402637 BNR, London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA Fax: (+44) 279 451434