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From: marcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot)
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Subject: Re: a style file for printing address labels?
Summary: midnight/labels
Keywords: labels, address
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Date: 23 May 91 20:53:40 GMT
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farkas@eecg.toronto.edu (Keith I. Farkas) wrote

> I have a list of names and addresses that I wish to print in a three column
> format as shown below.

midnight/labels.tex will do this:

	\input labels
	\hlbls=3 % three columns of labels
	\vlbls=5 % five rows of labels
	\beginlabels
	    % addresses, separated by empty lines
	\endlabels
	\bye

or	\input labels
	\hlbls=3 \vlbls=5
	\labelfile{xxx} % if file xxx has the addresses
	\bye

(Use TeX instead of LaTeX; that really doesn't matter, since your input is
just the addresses, nothing else.)

There are also control sequences to change the size of the labels, to
change the space between the labels, to specify that you want a box
around the labels, etc.

labels.tex, and the documentation, labels.doc, are available from
ymir.claremont.edu [134.173.4.23], directory [tex.inputs.midnight].


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