Re: Tool for document management
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:39:55AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:17 PM, John Hasler wrote:
>
> >David Brodbeck writes:
> >>TeX is awesome for writing books and scientific papers. If you're
> >>writing a letter to Grandma, though, OpenOffice is better suited.
> >
> >Now _that_ sounds like driving a semi truck to the supermarket to
> >pick up a
> >bottle of milk.
>
> Depends on your perspective, I guess. It just feels like by the time
> I get all the preliminary verbiage TeX needs typed out, I could have
> written the whole letter in OO. Also, looking at my copy of 'The Not
> So Short Introduction To LaTeX,' it's not clear to me what document
> class I'd use. They're all going to be a bit clumsy and
> inappropriate. It's not an "article", it's not a "report", and it's
> certainly not a "book"...
>
Here's my personal letter template. I copy it to the correct file name,
edit it, then latex it. The letter text itself is just plain text.
Doug.
---
\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{article}
%preamble here
\begin{document}
% no page number on this first page
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{flushleft}
Douglas A. Tutty\\
xxx xxxxxxxxx, RR. x\\
xxxxxx, ON xxx xxx\\
Ph: (xxx) xxx--xxxx\\
Email: dtutty@porchlight.ca\\
\end{flushleft}
\noindent \today
\bigskip
\noindent Dear:
\bigskip
\begin{flushleft}
Yours truly,
\vspace{2cm}
Douglas A. Tutty.
\end{flushleft}
\end{document}
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