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  TODO: tracktools
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.. contents::
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    1  Desired features
    2  Other
      2.1  Misc
      2.2  Invoice
      2.3  New Tool: ``plan``


- tracktools: Write a simple system for generating my invoices in
  ascii text format with a fixed number of columns, this would save a
  tremendous amount of time. use bibliographic fields.

- tracktools: Try the "pic" and "tbl" for generating invoices, read
  the UNIX text processing book.




Desired features
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- You need to add an option to the timesheet script: max contract time, so
  that we can easily calculate remaining time.

- Try the "pic" language and "tbl" and friends for generating postscript
  invoices

- Mention something within the tracktools about how I use encrypted files.

- Add invoice script to install, web page


Other
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Misc
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- finish work on :Rate: tag support

- split the non-entries text with null-time entries, so that we can output the
  comments decently one day.

- timesheet: don't count as description starting from a lines that starts at the
  beginning of the line;

- make a script that would an XML info for an invoice and generates postscript.

- somehow automatically extract and generate the documentation for each script.
  perhaps use pydoc?

Invoice
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- this could be used for invoices:

   Title:  pyXLWriter
   URL:    http://pyxlwriter.sourceforge.net/
   
   Description:
   
      "pyXLWriter is a Python library for generating Excel
      spreadsheets. It's a port of John McNamara's Perl
      Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module to Python."
   

New Tool: ``plan``
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A sort of MS Project-like tool that takes a simple textual description of tasks
to be completed along with time estimates and that generates an HTML file like a
Pert chart with bars of the right lengths.