Mark Trickett <marktrickett@bigpond.com> wrote:
I am doing labels for jam jars for someone else, albeit all the same on a sheet, using Postscript.
This raises an interesting question. What text-based input format would you recommend for one-off designs such as business cards? In my case, there's the added constraint that I can't see the output, but I can write the input in a text editor and read it with a braille display. I suppose it's either TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt, or one of the vector graphics formats. How are the Postscript templates for labels typically created? Do people generally use graphics editors or is it possible to imagine the desired layout and fonts, then either write the Postscript oneself or write in a graphics language which is converted to Postscript? I've always thought of Postscript as a format that's written by software only, but it is plain text and in theory could be written by hand, though I don't know how hard it would be in practice. As a completely separate topic, I'm also looking again at LaTeX resume/CV classes - I've used ModernCV in the past, but I am now leaning toward a style that's more flexible and which uses more of the standard LaTeX macros and environments. I still haven't made a decision, so if anyone has an opinion to offer... Incidentally, Debian Sid was recently upgraded to TeX Live 2011, which fixes a few bugs that affected me and updates lots of TeX-related tools and packages.