Re: Upcoming 2.0 of LedgerSMB

["Joshua D. Drake" <..hidden..>]

On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 15:36 -0700, Gerald Chudyk wrote:

> Hopefully in the future there are enough templates to choose from, and
> at a sufficient level of completeness that Sue doesn't need to
> customize much. If she can create sophisticated spreadsheets from
> Excel templates and build Access databases on a whim, then LaTeX
> should be manageable. It is, after all, a few steps up from writing
> postscript. 

You just illustrated exactly why it needs to be done. A few steps up
from writing postscript? NOBODY writes postscript. 

:D

> 
> > We *need* at least as an option to provide simple, easy to modify,
> > preferably from the browser, templates.
> >
> >
> I don't really care what we use. As long as there are reports designed
> for printing. I do not mean the screen dumps that seem to pervade this
> application. Maybe Joshua is on to something with XSLT. Maybe then the
> stuff could be sent to a good report generator or spreadsheet for
> formatting and printing. I bet Sue is expected to know how to use a
> spreadsheet. She does work in the accounting department, right?

Or is a book keeper for a small business.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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