speaking of unofficial lyx . . .

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

there is a mailmerge package available.  I think that it's somewhere as 
a contrib package on the site, but I'd have to look.  If that fails & 
you need it (or want to code more of it :), I can send the most recent 
version.  It's not done, and a couple of the options don't work yet 
(seems to me that separating by a paragraph marker is one of them), but 
it worked well enough to send out 200 job applications :)

And it's done in the text-based way of the 80's word processors, rather 
than the brain-dead way word & staroffice do it.


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