On 2016-03-05, at 19:56, Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 Mar 2016 at 10:47, York Zhao wrote:
>>> Why use a letter exporter (koma?) if you don't want something that looks
>>> like
>>> a letter?
>>
>> I wanted it to be a letter in all aspects, except that it doesn't have the
>> "from
>> address" and "to address" in the header. More specifically, I want my letter
>> looks like:
>>
>> Hi Flora,
>>
>> Blah blah blah!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> York
>>
>>> simply write it as a normal org document and export it to pdf or odt or
>>> whatever you wish to send.
>>
>> The problem is, it seems to me that to export to pdf, LaTeX export is the
>> only
>> way to go. But then you would have to choose a document class. Obviously you
>> can't use "article", nor "book". So my question may probably rephrase as:
>> which
>> latex document class do you use to export the letter "as is"?
>
> Ah, okay, I see. Well, you could try something along the lines of:
>
> #+begin_src org
> ,#+title:
> ,#+author:
> ,#+date:
> ,#+options: toc:nil num:nil
> ,*
> Hi Flora
>
> Blah blah blah!
>
> Regards,
>
> # leave some room for signature
> \vspace*{1.5cm}
>
> York
> #+end_src
>
> where the headline has a space after the "*". You might want to play
> with parindent and parskip LaTeX variables if you don't like the
> default.
>
> Alternatively, there may be other LaTeX styles that could give you what
> you want with a little customisation although probably unlikely. For
> instance, have a look at http://www.latextemplates.com/ and maybe create
> your own using the custom class example?
You could also stick something like
\let\maketitle=\relax
in the preamble. Dirty hack, but it should get rid of the
title/author/date stuff.
> HTH,
> eric
Hth,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
