[TriLUG] Data reporting tools

[John Beimler]

On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 10:04, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> In the past I've written scripts to write data to LaTeX format, then
> latex, dvips, lpr.  But LaTeX is great for some documents (e.g.,
> letters) and lousy for others (e.g., tables of undetermined length, data
> cards, etc.).  What other tools are available for this kind of work?
> 
I've been looking into ReportLab
(http://www.reportlab.com/opensource.html) for output, haven't had time
to look at it thouroughly yet though.  I've heard lots of good things
about it, and IBM has a good getting started article:

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-sc6.html

Peace.

john