Bug#421574: texlive-latex-base: \name macro documentation is wrong

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

tags 421574 wontfix
retitle 421574 letter.cls: \name macro documentation in latex.info is wrong
thanks

Vincent Lönngren <bice77@malmo2.net> wrote:

> According to latex.info, the \name macro is used for the return address. 
> However, \name only defines \fromname, which is only used for the 
> signature if nothing else is specified. I guess it may have been the 
> authors intention that \name should be used with the return address, but 
> it is not the case.

Thanks for the careful reading and the bug report.  The problem is,
latex.info is dead upstream and no longer maintained.  There's a similar
project which provides html files,
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/english/latex2e-html/index.html, in
texlive-doc-en, which does not have the bug (but also very short
information about letters).

I think the letter class is very US-centric in design.  The only
alternative I know, scrlettr.cls, might be a bit german-centric, but on
the other hand it's highly configurable and might be worth a look.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)