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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to export casual letter without from and to address?
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 22:15:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u1ws3ed.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAD3zm23AvczXk6BJ6EkQw3rMnLWLtO+G1A8F72SmyEgbmS1QSg@mail.gmail.com

York Zhao <gtdplatform@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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"?
>

Here's a first approximation using the built-in latex letter class:

o Add the following to some appropriate initialization file:

(require 'ox-latex)
(setq simple-letter-class
      '("letter"
	"\\documentclass[11pt]{letter}"))
        
(add-to-list 'org-latex-classes simple-letter-class t)

o Then export the following:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+LATEX_CLASS: letter
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
#+BIND: org-latex-title-command nil

#+LATEX_HEADER: \signature{York}

#+LATEX: \begin{letter}{}
Hi Flora,

Blah, blah!

#+LATEX: \closing{Regards,}
#+LATEX: \end{letter}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

-- 
Nick

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-06  3:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-04  5:12 How to export casual letter without from and to address? York Zhao
2016-03-05  3:36 ` York Zhao
2016-03-05 10:12   ` Eric S Fraga
2016-03-05 11:22     ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2016-03-05 15:57       ` York Zhao
2016-03-06 10:38         ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2016-03-05 15:47     ` York Zhao
2016-03-05 17:33       ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-05 18:56       ` Eric S Fraga
2016-03-05 19:52         ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-06 19:02           ` Rasmus
2016-03-06  3:15       ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2016-03-06 19:04 ` Rasmus
2016-03-07  1:11   ` York Zhao
2016-03-24 12:32 ` rbenit68

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