My wife is a writer, which today means she uses a word processing program. It's a sophisticated, powerful program—OpenOffice.org Writer—but occasionally it won't do something that she wants it to do.

There are plenty of automation tools today that promise results without writing a single line of code, but they come with limits. You’re usually locked into the templates and workflows the platform ...

It’s easy to automate the creation of Word documents with Quarto, a free, open-source technical publishing system that works with R, Python, and other programming languages. There are several ways to ...