Bug#415003: texlive-latex-extra: newlfm doesn't properly obey 'nofrom' options

[Cameron Horsburgh <cammo@netcall.com.au>]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:27:33PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Dear Paul,
> 
> I'm the maintainer of TeXLive in Debian, which contains your newlfm
> LaTeX class.  A user has reported a problem with the class:
> 
> Cameron Horsburgh <cammo@netcall.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get newlfm to produce letters suitable for printing
> > straight onto my company's preprinted stationery. Because the
> > stationery already has contact details printed, I do not need newlfm
> > to to produce those details. newlfm has options to do this --- for
> > example, I pass the option [busletternofrom] to the documentclass,
> > although there are other ways of doing this.
> >
> > However: if I pass any option to turn the contact details off, the
> > addressee's address disappears also. All other options (placement,
> > etc) work properly.
> 
> I haven't tried this---Cameron, it would be great if you could provide a
> minimal example so that we can see what you are doing exactly, see

Sure --- here's one I prepared earlier! It's fairly minimal, although
I find it easier to follow the document section if I use nested
definitions in letrinfo.tex. I've tried defining addresses in other
places, unnesting definitions and so on, with the same results.

One thing to look out for: make sure you remove ./letrinfo.tex and
the aux file between invocations --- they don't necessarily update
properly between invocations if you change things.

Thanks for your time.

%%%%%%%%%%  Example follows
\begin{filecontents}{letrinfo.tex}
  \makeaddress{GOD}{\name{Jesus Christ}%
    \addr{Heavenly Mansions\\%
      777 Divine Avenue\\%
      Heaven\\}%
  }%
  % 
  \makesignature{ME}{\signame{Jesus Christ, SoG}%
    \closeline{Yours sincerely,}%
  }%
  % 
  \makeletterhead{HEAVEN}{%
    \sigME%
    \setadrfr{\adrGOD}%
  }%
  % 
  \makeaddress{SATAN}{%
    \name{Old Nick}%
    \addr{666 Sulphur Street\\%
      Brimstone Rise,\\
      Hell}%
    \greet{Dear Nick,}%
  }%
\end{filecontents}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 

% With nofrom or its equivalents set both 
% from and to address blocks disappear.
%
% You may need to delete letrinfo.tex and 
% minimalNewlfm.aux to make sure changes 
% to this file are properly reflected 
% in the final product.


\documentclass[busletter]{newlfm}        %Renders correctly
%\documentclass[busletternofrom]{newlfm} %Renders incorrectly
\newlfmP{letrh=HEAVEN,addrt=SATAN}
\begin{document}
\begin{newlfm}

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

\end{newlfm}
\end{document}

%%%%%%%%%%  Example ends


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