From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40405 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:19:13 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0804170619y4b4ce5dau4c27c959952a3ae7@mail.gmail.com> References: <115224fb0804170113w70db8dadpb8528a18ef20c338@mail.gmail.com> <48074550.6030209@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208438697 17286 80.91.229.12 (17 Apr 2008 13:24:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:24:57 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 17 15:25:21 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JmU3I-0007U6-HN for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:21:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18CDC1FDD4; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:20:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22224-01-8; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:20:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F0C21FDF3; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:19:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADAC81FDF2 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:19:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22032-02-3 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:19:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.157]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B591FD1D for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:19:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 6so61313ywa.74 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.205.13 with SMTP id c13mr1620685ybg.135.1208438353687; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.49.21 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:19:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48074550.6030209@elvenkind.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40405 Archived-At: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > > > The discussion > > > > Before I start to give you information about my module and > > give you the chance to mention your own wishes or thoughts > > about the inteface I'm interested what do you use currently to > > write you own correspondence (letter, invoices etc.). > > This may be a surprise, but I use only oowriter/oocalc > currently. Why? > > * I have many different envelopes to cater for, with and > without address windows. This is why I seperate content and layout, the input for the data and text is always the same but layout and fields/information depend on the output. > * I sometimes need DIN letters, but sometimes just an > informal note to accompany an item Nothing can be more formal than a german letter in DIN style, lots of rules with fixed values from the typewriter and many exceptions. > * Quite a bit of correspondence is invoices and quotes, > with automatic calculations in them (VAT etc). I already played with a few basic styles but this should go into a seperate module and should be a MkIV only thing to get correct values in the output, although MkII is possible but I won't trust the results. > Most of this can be done in tex/luatex of course, but it > is a lot of effort compared to hitting a few extra > times in oowriter. Now, if there was a great letter module > for context .... ;-) Hans provides a Example interface for his own interface but I never got it working for myself but a simple user interface would be nice. Ideas for the input are welcome, it is completely independant from the backend and I could also offer the original interface from Donal Knuth. > > Before I release I first public bety version of the modul I > > want to hear which interface to set the letter information do > > you prefer and do you have things do want in the module. > > I definately would like an easy way to switch envelope > formats, and automatic page 1 of ... would be nice too. As I told, saw what you want and I could write a letter style. The total number of page can be set with subpagenumber and I tried hard to get it working with MkII and MKIV and spend a few hours to find the last remaining bugs. Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________