Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> writes:
> 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
This only works in latex. A backend-agnostic solution could be:
#+options: title:nil
Though maybe it's undesirable in some other aspect.
Rasmus
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