Wow, having generated items like this using mail merge (with embedded tabs in CSV data which makes Word move to the next table cell; ugh!) in Microsoft Word, you don't know what a relevation it is to see how easy that is. Once you're dealing with a text/XML format you can just interpolate your data.

I've been turned off by OpenOffice's clunky UI but I'll have to look past that now and develop a workflow for Writer.

Thanks a bunch for that recipe. I'll be submitting this node to google.