Re: Upcoming 2.0 of LedgerSMB

[Jeff Kowalczyk <..hidden..>]

Joshua D. Drake <jd@...> writes:
> I firmly believe we need to eliminate Latex or at least not make it a
> requirement and move to more modern technologies to generate invoices.

I appreciate and like LaTeX output. LaTeX::Table [1] seemed like something I
would want to build templates around. The problem would be finding something
else that handles page-breaking and other things that LaTeX does well.

That said, I'm not a LaTeX expert, and clients usually know nothing about it, so
+1 to add other output template options that target both high-quality PDF to
supplement LaTeX, and HTML+CSS output.

I had a need to add barcodes inline on LaTeX output, and the pdflatex toolchain
was a bit cumbersome to work with and debug.

I'd probably be interested to use a template system similar to that in Django,
i.e. the template source is not required to be xml or xhtml. What is the perl
equivalent?

It would be nice if UI templating and output templating could use the same
syntax and/or engine.

Jeff