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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:47:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipe1keow.fsf@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAMXnza1Gym=1tRZrAnTv3QLmq=uO_k23QqygyGHHNnBtqNZEfQ@mail.gmail.com

suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> 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 latex templates for letters in specific, I think Org
> mode might be the wrong tool for that. The tree structure is a
> fundamental part of Org. This works very well for articles, reports,
> theses; however I'm not sure it works as well for letters. You might
> be better off by just using latex directly.
>
> That said, maybe you could look for a latex template on CTAN[1]. Then
> you could customise org-export-latex-classes to include the
> documentclass provided by the package. Although I'm not sure how a tree
> structure could be mapped to a letter.
>
> If you do succeed, I would be interested to know.

Thanks for the tips, but I don't have time for that at the moment and
was rather hoping that somebody already did the work and likes to share.
Of course this is not a LaTeX list, but it would be OK too to just have a
nice LaTeX template and write with AucTeX, even if Org mode is not used
(yet). 

> Footnotes:
>
> [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
extra work necesary to make it look fancy and modern. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-05 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-05 12:49 Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters? Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-05 13:12 ` suvayu ali
2012-07-05 19:00   ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-05 22:00     ` suvayu ali
2012-07-05 22:47       ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
2012-07-06  8:47         ` Michael Strey
2012-07-06 16:35           ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-06 18:11             ` suvayu ali
2012-07-06 19:11               ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-06 19:23                 ` Bastien
2012-07-06 19:44                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-07-07  2:42             ` Mehul Sanghvi
2012-07-07 11:48               ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-07  1:55         ` Vikas Rawal
2012-07-07 11:58           ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-08 10:34             ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-07-06 19:08 ` HowTo: Letter template method using yasnippet (was: Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters?) Karl Voit
2012-07-06 22:35   ` HowTo: Letter template method using yasnippet Nicolas Goaziou
2012-07-07  0:34     ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-07-07  9:35     ` Karl Voit
2012-07-08  9:08     ` AW
2012-07-08 13:34       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-07-08 14:57         ` AW
2012-07-27 16:24     ` Extending org-koma-letter.el (was: HowTo: Letter template method using yasnippet) Rasmus
2012-07-29 18:31       ` Extending org-koma-letter.el Nicolas Goaziou
2012-07-31 10:14         ` Luis Anaya
2012-08-03  8:19           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-08-03 14:23             ` Luis Anaya
2012-08-03 16:24               ` Bastien
2012-08-04  0:40                 ` Luis Anaya
2012-11-06 15:31                 ` Alan Schmitt
2012-11-13 22:56                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-11-14 16:48                     ` Alan Schmitt
2012-11-20  3:14                       ` Luis Anaya
2012-11-22 16:07                     ` Alan Schmitt
2012-11-22 16:32                       ` Rasmus
2012-11-22 16:40                       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-11-23  8:34                         ` Alan Schmitt
2012-11-23 11:51                           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-11-26  8:01                             ` Alan Schmitt
2012-11-26 12:48                               ` Bastien
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2012-07-06 20:50 ` Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters? Luis Anaya

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