Re: quotes/invoices

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Gour <gour@atmarama.net> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> Many people use Org for doing things like this: it provides a nice way
>> to create structured documents, duplicate that structure, create
>> (simple) data stores, operate on that data with more or less complicated
>> program snippets, and export the whole mess to a variety of formats,
>> including PDF via Latex.
>
> :-)
>
>> If you're a new emacs user you might find it a wee bit overwhelming to
>> be learning emacs and org at the same time, but in the long run it would
>> probably be worth it. There's a separate (and very active) Org mailing
>> list as well.
>
> Believe it or not, but org-mdoe was the main reason why I switched back
> to Emacs - this time by using sticky keys to ao+void (possible) wrist
> pain.
>
> I do use orgmode, although I'm still moderate user, but was thinking
> there is maybe some other package coming from pre-orgmode era.

Ah, then I'm not sure what other options you have. There's actually an
org-invoice package in contrib! Really, the only reason I can think of
for not using org for this sort of thing is if you need something that's
really much closer to a database...