From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: quotes/invoices Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:14:40 +0800 Message-ID: <87bnwar6f3.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <86ioqj3s6v.fsf@atmarama.net> <87lhver7nz.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <86k3aylkk5.fsf@atmarama.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397049144 4231 80.91.229.3 (9 Apr 2014 13:12:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:12:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 09 15:12:16 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WXsIa-0002w0-Ct for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:12:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46085 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXsIZ-0007Fz-TT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:12:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35697) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXsIJ-0007E8-DT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:12:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXsID-00074x-Vt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:11:59 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXsID-00074t-PJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WXsIC-0002hk-M0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:11:52 +0200 Original-Received: from 50.56.99.223 ([50.56.99.223]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:11:52 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 50.56.99.223 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:11:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.56.99.223 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kWnugYz3E2FxDBMClTXmVc1j2HY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97065 Archived-At: Gour writes: > Eric Abrahamsen 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...