Re: Automating Latex

Jose Mancera wrote:
When you work in an office, you have to write many documents that are
very similar, only changing some data. For instance, you could be
writing billings, contracts, etc. and ideally you could do by
programming a document template and filling forms to insert the data
needed. Sorry for my English, I'm not very fluent.

There is a package called datatool that can be used to input information from CSV files into your documents and make tables and graphs based on them. You could also write programs that output at least part of a LaTeX document and then run the compiler on those to create the final document, perhaps.

If you are writing a contract, where only the names and addresses of people involved may change, it is possible to make a ``contract.cls'' file (a document class) and, in that class, provide the body text of the contracts and then some commands to allow you to adjust the names and addresses. Then each contract file could be produced with the same body text but with different addresses.

I hope this has given some idea of what can be done. If you want more information on where you can find out how to do any of the above things, please reply.

best regards,


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Matthew Tylee Atkinson <M.T.Atkinson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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