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[Tim Roberts]

David J Patrick wrote:
>
> I'm a 20 year computer hobbyist who managed to suss out shell scripting and
> basic, but really can only master latex when it comes in a can of paint.

That's a great line!  I might just steal that.

I'm the kind of guy who really cares about the aesthetics of my output. 
I like things to be aligned and balanced and spaced just so, and I want
to make sure my recipients see things exactly the way I laid them out. 
Because of that, I've actually jumped into LaTeX several times during my
career.  Each time, I get to the point where I can produce relatively
sophisticated documents that look really good.  The problem is that I
can't exchange my documents with anyone else in my business!  They all
want Word docs.  I can't afford to do things twice, so I put LaTeX down
for a while, and pretty soon all of that hard-earned knowledge just
seeps away.

And actually, I find that calling ReportLab from Python to create PDF
files directly is both flexible and rewarding, and EVERYONE can read a
PDF file.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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