%%name: GRG

%%short-description: GNU Report Generator
 
%%full-description: Reads record and field information from a dBase 3+
file, delimited ASCII text file, or an SQL query to a RDBMS and
produces a report listing. The program was designed primarily to
produce a TeX/LaTeX formatted output, but plain ASCII text, troff,
PostScript, web-authoring, or any other kind of ASCII based output format can
be produced also.

The program is ideal for generating large bodies of text where various
parts of the text are substituted with information from a database.

A definition file controls the formatting process, which
holds the report, page, and record layouts, what fields to display,
amd where. Other useful functions include sorting, dithering, and
data manipulation of records in the database. Main features include:
<pre>
    
    Multiple input databases
    Support for ASCII text, dBase 3+, CA-Ingres, GNU SQL Server Database
    Sorting of database records
    Automatic banner placement at the atart of each sorted group
    Filters using regular expressions or GRG equates
    Five main text bodies-- header, footer, record, 1st page, and nth page
    User defined macros and text bodies
    User defined equations on field contents, including the conditionals
    User configurable input parsing patterns (default is like awk)
    Include files
    Environment variables
    System variables
    General purpose processing language
    Optional GUILE support
   

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%%category: editing, word-processing, database

%%license: GPL

%%maintainer: Tim Colles <timc@dai.ed.ac.uk>

%%interface: Interactive

%%updated: 26 Apr 2000

%%keywords: Database, dBase, SQL 

%%GNU: yes

%%web-page: http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/grg/

%%support:

%%doc: User manual available at http://www.dai/ed/ac/uk/daidb/grg/doc/

%%developers: Tim Colles <timc@dai.ed.ac.uk>

%%contributors: 

%%sponsors: 

%%source: ftp://ftp.dai.ed.ac.uk/pub/daidb/grg

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%%related: Guile

%%source-language: C

%%supported-languages: 

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%%version: 1.43 released on 15 Dec 1997

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%%bug-list: timc@dai.ed.ac.uk
	    











 






