Is there a {easy?} way to generate "fancy" documents from Perl. The kind of things I'm looking for is fonts, italics, tables. Nothing really fancy {like automatic tables of contents or indexes}. Two ways come to mind that might to work: one is to generate a LaTeX file and then format it with LaTeX. The other is to generate HTML I find LaTeX a bit too fussy and messy, but it would be doable, but I'm leaning toward that latter one. HTML isn't particularly nice for making hardcopy {or PDFs} since I don't *think* there's any notion of things like page breaks, headers and footers, etc, in HTML but it is awfully easy to generate. Has anyone found a way to do this kind of thing?

In reply to producing fancy text by BernieC

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