Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

Hi all, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Vikas Rawal writes: >>> > [1] Off the top of the head I recall a package called `scrlttr'. >>> >>> Yes, part of KOMA (?), but thats rather low level if you have to design >>> your own letters - and who knows all that stuff about professional letter >>> design?. I

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

Vikas Rawal writes: >> > >> > [1] Off the top of the head I recall a package called `scrlttr'. >> >> Yes, part of KOMA (?), but thats rather low level if you have to design >> your own letters - and who knows all that stuff about professional letter >> design?. I tried that once and the result w

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

Mehul Sanghvi writes: > Just out of curiosity, what was the CV template you used ? I attach 3 variations of the same template, I used the one from TRAVIS as a basis for my CV, but the others are nice too. %% start of file `template_en.tex'. %% Copyright 2007 Xavier Danaux (xdan...@gmail.com). %

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > > Yes, I'm German, and I've used komascript before, and that is definitely > a way to achieve what I want. > > I'm just trying to repeat the nice experience I had with writing a > modern CV in LaTeX - download a template, put in your data,

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

> > > > [1] Off the top of the head I recall a package called `scrlttr'. > > Yes, part of KOMA (?), but thats rather low level if you have to design > your own letters - and who knows all that stuff about professional letter > design?. I tried that once and the result was ugly, there is a lot of

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

FWIW: One format provided by Groff MM macros are business letters. It may not fit all types of communications, but it was the way business letters written in Ma Bell for many years. Keep in mind that I'm still working on this code. It is far from done. Source: http://ppl.ug/AcT6H0xSB1o/ Out

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

Hello, Bastien writes: > A letter is no more than a header with the author, the date, the object > of the letter, perhaps the client's address and the content of the > letter. > > If you find a nice LaTeX class, it is quite straightforward to create a > derived LaTeX backend with ̀org-export-def

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

Hi Thorsten, Thorsten Jolitz writes: > If I find (or make) a nice template, I will announce it ;) A letter is no more than a header with the author, the date, the object of the letter, perhaps the client's address and the content of the letter. If you find a nice LaTeX class, it is quite strai

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

suvayu ali writes: > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Thorsten Jolitz > wrote: >> I'm just trying to repeat the nice experience I had with writing a >> modern CV in LaTeX - download a template, put in your data, and enjoy a >> beautifill CV (or letter) - actually much more beautiful than I would

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > I'm just trying to repeat the nice experience I had with writing a > modern CV in LaTeX - download a template, put in your data, and enjoy a > beautifill CV (or letter) - actually much more beautiful than I would > have ever managed to produ

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

Michael Strey writes: Hi Michael, > On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 12:47:59AM +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: >> suvayu ali writes: > ... >> > [1] Off the top of the head I recall a package called `scrlttr'. >> >> Yes, part of KOMA (?), but thats rather low level if you have to design >> your own lette

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

Hi Thorsten, On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 12:47:59AM +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > suvayu ali writes: ... > > [1] Off the top of the head I recall a package called `scrlttr'. > > Yes, part of KOMA (?), but thats rather low level if you have to design > your own letters - and who knows all that stuf

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

suvayu ali writes: > Well I assumed it would be since you already have a "quite nice" > OpenOffice template. It looks like a professional letter, while everything I found in the web rathers proves that programmers are not designers, even with a tool like LaTeX at hand. > If you are after late

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > suvayu ali writes: > >> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Thorsten Jolitz >> wrote: >>> although using Emacs/Org-mode for almost everything, I still write my >>> "official" correspondence with a (quite nice) OpenOffice template. It >>> would

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

suvayu ali writes: > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Thorsten Jolitz > wrote: >> although using Emacs/Org-mode for almost everything, I still write my >> "official" correspondence with a (quite nice) OpenOffice template. It >> would be so much easier and faster to just use Org mode for that too.

Re: [O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > although using Emacs/Org-mode for almost everything, I still write my > "official" correspondence with a (quite nice) OpenOffice template. It > would be so much easier and faster to just use Org mode for that too. You can use opendocument e

[O] Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?

Hi List, although using Emacs/Org-mode for almost everything, I still write my "official" correspondence with a (quite nice) OpenOffice template. It would be so much easier and faster to just use Org mode for that too. I tried some LaTeX templates from the web, but they were ugly. I know one co