Re: [AUCTeX] cvs2tex

[David Kastrup]

Andreas Roehler <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> does someone know a script, reading address from a
>>>>> cvs-database into tex (letter)?
>>>>>             
>>>> You mean csv, don't you?
>>>>         
>>> Exactly, sorry.
>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> There is a serial letter macro in Latex; what I need
>>>>> is to read in separate addresses occasionally,
>>>>> specified by a regexp.
>>>>>             
>>>> Your description is less than clear.
>>>>       
>>> Here an example:
>>>
>>> From addresses in a file as
>>>
>>> JOE,ANYONE,Nickname,Countrycode,Berlin,10407,ANYSTREET,0,...
>>>
>>> an address in tex shall be generated
>>>
>>> \address{JOE ANYONE\\
>>> ANYSTREET. 0 \\
>>> 10407 Berlin\\}
>>
>> It does not sound like describing accurately what you want to have
>> done, since more than one address will be in the file and it is not
>> likely that you want to get all \address lines after each other.
>
> Hmm, I wrote:
>
> "to read in separate addresses occasionally,
> specified by a regexp."
>
> What about something like
>
> extract an address from a csv-database into a tex letter form?

Could you write a minimal complete example document that would be
supposed to work as you want?

I still have no idea what tools are supposed to extract the addresses
and where they should be placed in what manner.

It may be a TeX programming problem that you have in mind, but then it
would make little sense asking on the AUCTeX list.  So I still have no
clue what tool you actually want to do what job on what input.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum