From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thorsten Jolitz Subject: Re: Org/LaTeX set-up for business letters? Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:47:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87ipe1keow.fsf@googlemail.com> References: <8762a2l6f7.fsf@googlemail.com> <87mx3ejan4.fsf@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Smune-0000QB-8r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:45:27 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Smunb-0003aJ-04 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:45:25 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48000) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Smuna-0003Yw-OW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:45:22 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SmunX-0002gl-VI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:45:19 +0200 Received: from g231225180.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.225.180]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:45:19 +0200 Received: from tjolitz by g231225180.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:45:19 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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 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