simple formatting possibilities

[Paul Gilmartin]

On 2020-09-01, at 10:49:22, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 01:06:48PM -0400, Mark H. Wood wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> It's easy to edit documents in a revisable format until they are
>> satisfactory, and then render the finished content in a final format
>> (or multiple final formats) for publication.
> 
> Good point Mark.  And certainly my need is distribution of a finalized
> document.  I've kinda decided to create the 2 columns of seating
> assignments using a text editor and shell tools.  This will be the
> main part of the email msg body.  That will also be pasted into an
> "odt" document, some formatting and boiler plate added, then exported
> as a "pdf" for attachment to the email.
>  
If you have LibreOffice, consider editing to a .csv; importing to
LibreOffice as a spreadsheed, and exporting as .pdf (or .html).

A shell tool might automate converting plain text to .csv.

-- gil