given a hash of mail merge field strings, returns the properly merged
body; mail merge fields defined by (|fieldname|); fields with no
corresponding value will be returned blank
for holding a list of errors, named errors, or some combination thereof; for keeping track of, for instance, validation errors while rolling through processing of a form
TODO: FIX: NOTE TO SELF: getScaledInstance can take negatives for width or height, thus scaling that parameter to maintain the aspect ratio of the original image dimensions !!!
given a hash of form name/value pairs and a "letter", returns
the properly merged body; fields are defined by (|fieldname|);
fields with no corresponding value will be returned blank