[VPM] Printing one line over several lines

Carl B. Constantine cconstan at csc.UVic.CA
Thu Mar 27 10:31:11 CST 2003


*On Wed Mar 26, 2003 at 06:09:10PM -0800, Abram Hindle (abez at abez.ca) wrote:
> 
> I haven't looked at the code but why not print out latex rather than plain
> text. Then you use latex or pdflatex to render it. Then you need not waste
> time with formatting. Even better produce a flat (easy to parse) xml document
> which represents the table and then make a filter which outputs to
> latex->ps/pdf.

that would be fine except these reports are delivered via email to
profs. Many don't bother with HTML mail (using console based email such
as pine, elm, etc) so that's not an option either.

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Carl B. Constantine         University of Victoria
Programmer Analyst          http://www.csc.uvic.ca
UNIX System Administrator   Victoria, BC, Canada
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