Bug#421574: texlive-latex-base: \name macro documentation is wrong

2007-05-01 Thread Frank Küster
tags 421574 wontfix
retitle 421574 letter.cls: \name macro documentation in latex.info is wrong
thanks

Vincent Lönngren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 According to latex.info, the \name macro is used for the return address. 
 However, \name only defines \fromname, which is only used for the 
 signature if nothing else is specified. I guess it may have been the 
 authors intention that \name should be used with the return address, but 
 it is not the case.

Thanks for the careful reading and the bug report.  The problem is,
latex.info is dead upstream and no longer maintained.  There's a similar
project which provides html files,
/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/english/latex2e-html/index.html, in
texlive-doc-en, which does not have the bug (but also very short
information about letters).

I think the letter class is very US-centric in design.  The only
alternative I know, scrlettr.cls, might be a bit german-centric, but on
the other hand it's highly configurable and might be worth a look.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)



Bug#421574: texlive-latex-base: \name macro documentation is wrong

2007-04-30 Thread Vincent Lönngren
Package: texlive-latex-base
Version: 2005.dfsg.3-1
Severity: normal

According to latex.info, the \name macro is used for the return address. 
However, \name only defines \fromname, which is only used for the 
signature if nothing else is specified. I guess it may have been the 
authors intention that \name should be used with the return address, but 
it is not the case.

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/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
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