[Jprogramming] Publish and .sty?

[Bill Harris]

Devon McCormick <devonmcc at gmail.com> writes:

> Bill - have you gotten "publish" to work at all?  I get an error trying to
> run the demo:

I did once make an SQLite database to keep track of some
business-related material, and I wrote scripts to extract data from
SQLite and publish them in a periodic report.  That was easier, though
-- tables, graphs, section headers, and flowing text.  This time, I'm
trying to place text at arbitrary spots on the page in a landscape
format.  

I'm not sure if I ever ran the demo.

I'm stuck between J Publish, ReportLab, DocBook, and LaTeX.  I haven't
figured out how to do that in ReportLab, either.  I'm doing this on
Windows, and I've almost never had luck getting a free DocBook toolchain
on Windows, even with cygwin (except when I installed coLinux and
cheated :-).  So if I don't figure Publish or ReportLab out soon, I may
switch to a bash script and LaTeX; I'm pretty sure I can make that work.

Bill
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