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Hello.

An user of mine has a need: she must produce gobs of documents which
often comprise the same part of text (usually paragraphs or whole
chapters), but differs in some small details or in header/footer.

That's something I would easily arrange with LaTeX, make and other "developers'" tools, if I had to do that myself; however I need to give
her some more "user-friendly", non technical-oriented tool.

Bonus: these documents must be versioned; that's something she does
manually now, but if the software would help...

Something web-based (possibly running on FreeBSD) would probably be
fine, but a desktop application would also do (but then it should be
able to run on Windows).

Does such tools exist? How would they be called? (I have no idea what
search terms to use).
Any reccomenendations?

bye & Thanks
av.


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Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:50:18 +0200
Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote:

An user of mine has a need: she must produce gobs of documents which
often comprise the same part of text (usually paragraphs or whole
chapters), but differs in some small details or in header/footer.

That's something I would easily arrange with LaTeX, make and other "developers'" tools, if I had to do that myself; however I need to
give her some more "user-friendly", non technical-oriented tool.

Bonus: these documents must be versioned; that's something she does
manually now, but if the software would help...

Something web-based (possibly running on FreeBSD) would probably be
fine, but a desktop application would also do (but then it should be
able to run on Windows).

Does such tools exist? How would they be called? (I have no idea what
search terms to use).
Any reccomenendations?

Have you looked at Scribus (print/scribus)?
https://www.scribus.net/

HTH,
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Piotr Smyrak


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or maybe lyx?-a A web gui using TeX in the background.-a I used it more
than 20 years ago for my diploma :-)
All the best, Norbert :-)
On 7/28/25 12:34, Piotr Smyrak wrote:

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:50:18 +0200
Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote:

An user of mine has a need: she must produce gobs of documents which
often comprise the same part of text (usually paragraphs or whole
chapters), but differs in some small details or in header/footer.

That's something I would easily arrange with LaTeX, make and other
"developers'" tools, if I had to do that myself; however I need to
give her some more "user-friendly", non technical-oriented tool.

Bonus: these documents must be versioned; that's something she does
manually now, but if the software would help...

Something web-based (possibly running on FreeBSD) would probably be
fine, but a desktop application would also do (but then it should be
able to run on Windows).

Does such tools exist? How would they be called? (I have no idea what
search terms to use).
Any reccomenendations?

Have you looked at Scribus (print/scribus)?
https://www.scribus.net/

HTH,

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