Re: Lout and Mail Merge

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 09:24:41PM +0300, IBMackey wrote:

> I create a lot of forms that sometimes (1) information from keyboard as
> a document is processed (i.e. quick memo, names and address), (2) names
> and addresses from a standard database, and (3) conditional text (i.e. a
> warning if the person has children or not).
> 
> In latex, you have the "\typein" command to handle (1) and the if/then
> package to handle (3). I believe I will have to make some kind of script
> to handle (2).

(1) use @Filter with appropriate program, a trivial example is cat(1)
(2) make this into a lout @Database
(3) use @Case


SY, Uwe
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