Invoices in TeX [was: Re: Extra content added to printed invoices]

[Thomas Witzenrath]

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Hi,

Paul Gear wrote:
>
> Even fairly basic layout changes require you to hack the scheme file
> that generates the report.

I have always felt, that a decent templating system is something that
gnucash has yet to achieve to make it realy usable. I have been
fighting those scheme files for quite some time now and have finaly
found a different way to get my invoices printed. I hacked up a small
python script, that will export your invoice-data directly from your
gnucash file to a .tex-Template, since I felt TeX is a lot easier than
scheme.. at least for me.. :-)

The downside is, I haven't had the time to clean it up as much as
would be needed to make it a real shiny product. I haven't even gotten
to write a decent documentation of what it does and how it does it.
All there is so far is a little (german) Wikipage about it. You can
find an example invoice that was generated with it there.

If people are interested, I might be motivated enough to write up some
multilanguage (english and german that is) documentation and perhaps
even clean it up a bit so changing the template will be easier.

So far, you can take a look at [0] and download it there... code
should be easy to read. Comments are welcome!

Greets

Tom

[0]
http://www.tagwar.de/index.php?title=GnuCash-Invoices_extrahieren_und_in_LaTeX_umsetzen
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