Re: Plain text mail-merge
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:25:00AM +0000, Frank Copeland wrote:
> I'm looking for a tool that can do the equivalent of the mail-merge
> feature found in any decent word processor, but with plain text files.
> I'm sure there has to be such a beast but I've apt-search'd and
> freshmeat'd with various combinations of "mail merge text
> substitution" to no avail. I'm sure an hour or so with perl or python
> will produce the goods for my specific case but I find it hard to
> believe there's no general purpose tool already available.
'groff' will do it with complete formating capabilities. Unfortunately
the documentation is not readily available.
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