writing a letter in LaTeX
Hi:
I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to
Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output
looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to'
addresses in the output DVI file. I was pretty shocked by this, since
a long time back when I was an Atari ST user, I had LaTeX set up there
as my word processor and never had a problem like this.
My setup is a current (as of 30 Nov) 'slink' distribution. Here is what I
have installed:
p2 14:11 press-rcb[152] dpkg --list tetex\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii tetex-base 0.9.981030-2 basic teTeX library files
ii tetex-bin 0.9.981031-3 teTeX binary files
pn tetex-dev <none> (no description available)
pn tetex-doc <none> (no description available)
ii tetex-extra 0.9.981030-2 extra teTeX library files
pn tetex-french <none> (no description available)
ii tetex-nonfree 0.9.981030-2 non-free teTeX library files
pn tetex-src <none> (no description available)
p2 14:29 press-160[153] dpkg --list lyx\* ~
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii lyx 0.12.0.final-0 High Level Word Processor (BETA version)
Here is a sample document I could reproduce the problem with:
\documentclass{letter}
\begin{document}
\address{John Jones\\ 123 A St.\\ Anytown, AW AB3 4AA}
\begin{letter}{Mr. Joe Smith\\ 2345 Princess St.
\\ Edinburgh, EH1 1AA}
Each letter is a `letter' environment, whose argument is the name
and address of the recipient. For example, you might have:
\end{letter}
\end{document}
If I run 'latex test.tex', the DVI once again is missing the address
information.
Is this a bug or do I just have a messed up installation?
Thanks,
---
Roy Bixler
The University of Chicago Press
rcb@press-gopher.uchicago.edu
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