latex_invoices.py File Reference

Exports an invoice to lco-file for use with LaTeX, see Python invoice export. More...

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Data Structures
class	latex_invoices.Usage

Functions
def	latex_invoices.invoice_to_lco
def	latex_invoices.main

Detailed Description

Exports an invoice to lco-file for use with LaTeX, see Python invoice export.

Author

Christoph Holtermann (c.holtermann (at) gmx.de)

Date

May 2011

The output file can be imported into KOMA-Script-letters. This works primarily for germany. Internationalization welcome!

Additional files:

• Invoice.tex
  Example template file. Should be modified according to personal needs.
• rechnung.sty
  style file for invoices.
  This file is not part of the python-bindings!
  For an example where to get it see section credits below.

Usage :

latex_invoice -l -f -n INVOICE_NUMBER file://testfile 

will create file data.lco.

latex --output-format=pdf Invoice.tex 

should run latex on file Invoice.tex and result in Invoice.pdf. Invoice.tex includes data.lco.

Additional information :

• Doxygen docs: see page Python invoice export at http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/HEAD/
• http://www.uweziegenhagen.de/latex/documents/rechnung/rechnungen.pdf (german)

Credits to and ideas from

• Main function as proposed by Guido van Rossum at http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4829
• Invoice.tex is derived from
  scrlttr2.tex v0.3. (c) by Juergen Fenn juerg.nosp@m.en.f.nosp@m.enn@g.nosp@m.mx.d.nosp@m.e
  http://www.komascript.de/node/355
  english translation: ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/templates/fenn/scrlttr2en.tex
• rechnung.sty
  from M G Berberich (berbe.nosp@m.ric@.nosp@m.fmi.u.nosp@m.ni-p.nosp@m.assau.nosp@m..de) and Ulrich Sibiller (uli42.nosp@m.@web.nosp@m..de) Ver3.10 from http://www.forwiss.uni-passau.de/~berberic/TeX/Rechnung/index.html

To Do:

• get own contact data from gnucash
• have own bank information in footline
• nicer formatting of invoice date and date due
• is there anything else missing in this invoice ?

Definition in file latex_invoices.py.