[gentoo-user] so many TeX packages ...

[gentoo-user] so many TeX packages ...

[hw]

Hi,

there are quite a few TeX/LaTeX packages available.  Which ones should I 
use?

What I need to do is invent some way to automatically print labels on 
label printers with data from a mysql database.

What would you suggest?

[gentoo-user] Re: so many TeX packages ...

[Martin Vaeth]

hw <hw@gartencenter-vaehning.de> wrote:
>
> there are quite a few TeX/LaTeX packages available.

emerge texlive with USE=latexextra

> print labels on label printers

texdoc labels

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: so many TeX packages ...

[hw]

Am 10.06.2015 um 11:14 schrieb Martin Vaeth:
> hw <hw@gartencenter-vaehning.de> wrote:
>>
>> there are quite a few TeX/LaTeX packages available.
>
> emerge texlive with USE=latexextra

Thanks, that got me started.

>> print labels on label printers
>
> texdoc labels

This seems to be for pre-defined labels like you get them in A4 size?  I 
need to print them on special label printers, labels coming from a roll 
that is put into the printer.  Since they are incompatible, I probably 
will need to create a dvi file and print that from windoze.

The geometry package is very helpful:


\documentclass[10pt, twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[paperwidth=110mm, paperheight=32mm, top=1mm, bottom=1mm, 
left=1mm, right=1mm]{geometry}
\setlength{\columnsep}{3mm}

\begin{document}

Put some text here.

\end{document}

[gentoo-user] Re: so many TeX packages ...

[Martin Vaeth]

hw <hw@gartencenter-vaehning.de> wrote:
>> texdoc labels
>
> This seems to be for pre-defined labels like you get them in A4 size?

I have no experience with it; for my purposes a simple manual setting
was always enough. There are of course more (La)TeX packages for labels,
probably most already installed with USE=latexextra.
Here seems to be a useful overview:

http://blog.worldlabel.com/2010/label-card-printing-resources-with-tex-and-latex.html