Re: Tool for document management
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:39:55 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:17 PM, John Hasler wrote:
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>> 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"...
I like the "scrlttr2" class provided by koma-script (which is included
in the texlive-latex-recommended package). It takes care of all the
formatting, including details such as the exact position of the address
and the matching foldmarks for envelopes with an address window. The
letterhead can be stored in a separate file, which makes the source of
the individual letters more easily readable and provides a convenient
mechanism to switch between different letterheads, e.g. for business,
private, other languages...
If anyone is interested, here is an example (PDF, 31 KB):
http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer/latex-letter/letter.pdf
(I replaced the logo of my institute with a simple dummy to make the
file smaller; most of the remaining size is taken up by the embedded
latex fonts.)
The source files are here (tarball, 5.6 KB):
http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer/latex-letter/latex-letter.tar.bz2
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