On Fri, 19 May 2006, David Neeley wrote:
This was a business letter--and of course the template has an inside
address for the recipient. However, try as I might, I could *not* get it to
print the inside address at all. It was missing from the DVI view and from
all printable views (the various PostScript and PDF options).
David,
First, upgrade from 1.3.7 to 1.4.1. Second, there is a non-intuitive order
of elements in the letter. It's been many years, but I believe that the
signature block has to be entered toward the top of the letter. I was
thinking recently that I need to re-visit how to use LaTeX for letters. Take
a look at the Koma-script series for documentation.
This might help: <http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/help/faqs/latex/letters.shtml>
"This is descibed in the LaTeX book by Leslie Lamport and others. A basic
example of its use is
\documentclass{letter}
\address{12 The Street \\ Oxford \\ OX1 1AA}
\name{Me}
\signature{My Signature line}
\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{M. Renault \\ Sorbonne \\ Paris}
\opening{Dear Sir,}
.... text of the letter ....
\closing{Yours faithfully}
\end{letter}
\end{document}
Additional commands you may use include
\cc{Jane Jones}
\encl{My newest poem}
which can be put after the closing but before the end letter to list those
the letter has been cc'ed to and any documents enclosed."
Another question, if I may--the letter style defaults to justified
text--yet the right margin was anything but completely uniform. I had to
put discretionary hyphens a few places--no big deal, really--but in other
places the right was simply a bit ragged. Since TeX is a typesetting
language, I suspect I have something set up wrong. Any pointers as to where
to begin to look?
No, you have nothing set incorrectly. The TeX engine sometimes cannot
figure out where to properly break a line, so it juts into the right margin.
It's called an overfull line and needs human correction. You can either
provide hints where the word could be hyphenated (by entering {\-} in ERT
boxes at the appropriate places), or re-writing the sentence so the word
order is different.
If you're going to be using LaTeX and Lyx extensively, consider purchasing
two references to start:
Kopka, H. and P.W. Daly. Guide to LaTeX, 4th Edition
Mittlebach, F. and M. Goossens. The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Edition.
HTH,
Rich
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