Mail- (or text-)merge with ConteXt

Mail- (or text-)merge with ConteXt

[vittorio]

I would like to write letters using some mail-merge or text merge procedure 
under ConTeXt.
Could you please help me indicating where should I start with and, above all, 
giving some example of that?

Thanks a lot
Vittorio

Re: Mail- (or text-)merge with ConteXt

[vittorio]

Alle 20:43, mercoledì 22 febbraio 2006, vittorio ha scritto:
> I would like to write letters using some mail-merge or text merge procedure
> under ConTeXt.
> Could you please help me indicating where should I start with and, above
> all, giving some example of that?
>
Perhaps I need to be more precise!!

What I've been doing for some years has been to send some 1800 2-page letters 
in a shot. What change are the addresses of the recipients and some small 
parts of the text according to certain circumstances. Years ago I dismissed 
the mail-merge capabilities of MS-Word because it was unable to deal with 
that amount of letters. So I tailored a *-sty file for my letters and started 
to use latex with the textmerge. Bingo, it was THE solution!

Now I want to give ConTeXt a chance. I mean that a Context doc seems to me 
more "readable" and "intuitive" than latex. So I would have a go with ConTeXt 
to solve the same problem.

Ciao
Vittorio

Re: Mail- (or text-)merge with ConteXt

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2006-02-22 um 23:05 schrieb vittorio:

> Alle 20:43, mercoledì 22 febbraio 2006, vittorio ha scritto:
>> I would like to write letters using some mail-merge or text merge  
>> procedure
>> under ConTeXt.
>> Could you please help me indicating where should I start with and,  
>> above
>> all, giving some example of that?
>>

I would use a script that pulls the addresses from the database and  
writes the ConTeXt code for each; you could define some \Letter 
{Address} macro to reduce redundance.

Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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