Re: [Groff] Address labels]

[M Bianchi]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 09:34:07AM +0100, John Poltorak wrote:
> How would one populate this with addresses from, say an ASCII CSV file 
> which had one line per address?

        I don't use CSV files, so I don't have anything in hand.

> And what would you need to change if you were using J8160 labels?

        I wrote these before I was aware of Larry Kollar's macros (below).
        I would just measure measure the label sheet,
        determine the parameters and substitute.
 
> It would be handy to find macros for different labels. Maybe they could be 
> generated from some WP program which supported Avery labels.

        There is a labels macro package listed at
                http://www.troff.org/macros.html
        Maybe you could add to that and contribute.
 
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:05:27AM -0400, M Bianchi wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 12:20:25PM -0600, Clarke Echols wrote:
> > > I haven't done labels, but I wrote a package to print business cards
> > > on pre-perforated business-card stock.
> > >   :
> > 
> > On the basis that 0x01 example is worth 1K words,
> > here is a test sheet for  Avery 5163  2 x 4 inch Mailing Labels ...
> > 
> > 
> > .nr Centered     1  \" Uncentered Labels == 0; Centered Labels == 1
> > .nr LabelWidth   4.00i
> > .nr LabelHeight  2.00i
> > .nr FirstTopEdge 0.50i
> > .nr HorizSpacing 0.20i
> > .nr PageOffset   0.15i
> > .nr Columns      2
> > .nr PointSize    16
> > .
> > .ll \n[LabelWidth]u
> > .lt \n[.l]u
> > .nf
> > .rs
> > .di LabelDiversion
> > .   ft HB
> > .   if \n[Centered] .ce 99
> > .   ps \n[PointSize]
> > .   vs \n[.s]+2
> > .   ps (\n[PointSize]+1)
> > Foveal
> > .   br
> > .   vs -4
> > .   ps -4
> > .   sp 0.4
> > Line 2
> > Line 3
> > .   tl '|'Line 4'|'
> > Line 5
> > Line 6
> > .   ps \n[PointSize]-2
> > .   vs \n[.s]+2
> > .   sp 0.2
> > .   ps \n[PointSize]-4
> > .   vs \n[.s]+2
> > F\s-2OVEAL\s0 S\s-2YSTEMS\s0 \s-2LLC\s0
> > .   ps -3
> > .   vs -3
> > 973 822-2085
> > .   ps +2
> > \f[CB]www.FovealMounts.com\fP
> > .   br
> > .
> > .   if \n[Centered] .ce 0
> > .
> > .di
> > \#
> > .nr ColumnsRemaining \n[Columns]
> > \#
> > \#
> > .ie !\n[Centered] \{\
> > .   nr xx (\n[LabelWidth]u-\n[dl]u)/2
> > .   po \n[xx]u+\n[PageOffset]u+\n[HorizontalBias]u \}
> > .el .   po \n[PageOffset]u+\n[HorizontalBias]u
> > \#
> > .rs
> > .nr xx (\n[LabelHeight]-\n[dn])/2+\n[FirstTopEdge]+\n[VerticalBias]
> > .sp |\n[xx]u
> > .mk
> > .de xX
> > .ie !\\n[ColumnsRemaining] \{
> > .   in 0
> > .   nr ColumnsRemaining \n[Columns]
> > .   rt
> > .   sp \n[LabelHeight]u
> > .   mk
> > .   br \}
> > .el \{
> > .   nr ColumnsRemaining -1
> > .   rt
> > .   LabelDiversion
> > .   in +\n[LabelWidth]u+\n[HorizSpacing]u
> > .   xX \}
> > ..
> > .xX
> > .xX
> > .xX
> > .xX
> > .xX

-- 
 Mike Bianchi
 Foveal Systems

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