Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

[Peter S Galbraith <psg@debian.org>]

Roy C Bixler wrote:

> 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.

Try adding the \opening{} command like so:

\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}
\opening{Dear Sir,}
   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}

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