Off Topic: latex mail merge

[Alex Maynard]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:

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> A good place to ask this question would be in the newsgroup comp.lang.tex.

Thanks very much. I found the comp.text.tex and found the answer there.
The problem was more basic than I thought. tex and latex commands only
allow 9 arguments and there is no way to change this but it appears
that there are work arounds.  Thanks again. Alex


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> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I apologize for an off-topic question (on latex rather than linux). I
> > thought someone on the list might have run into a similar problem before.
> >
> > I am using mailmerge in the latex letter environment but seem to have
> > trouble increasing above 9 inputs fields. I get a latex error message that
> > looks
> > like:
> >
> > (./32705cover.tex
> > ! You already have nine parameters.
> > \reserved at a ...f \expandafter \cov \reserved at b #11
> >                                                   5{
> > l.75 }
> >
> > ?
> >
> > I was wondering if any on list had run into this constraint and has any
> > suggestions on how I might be able to loosen, so as to exceed 9 fields.
> >
> > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. I'm sorry again for the off-topic
> > question.
> >
> > Alex
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