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@ 2016-12-08  0:46 Stig Brautaset
  2016-12-08  8:48 ` Sebastian Christ
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Stig Brautaset @ 2016-12-08  0:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode


I've tried to get a simple letter to export to PDF using the latex 
letters
class, but I can't get it to work in any satisfactory way. I want 
to get
something like the following generated:

,----
| \documentclass{letter}
| \signature{Sender McSenderface}
| 
| \address{My address \\ My town \\ My country}
| 
| \begin{document}
| \begin{letter}{Recipient name \\ Recipient address \\ Recipient 
  country}
| 
| \opening{Dear Sir or Madam:}
| 
| Aliquam erat volutpat. Nunc eleifend leo vitae magna. In id erat 
  non orci
| commodo lobortis. Proin neque massa, cursus ut, gravida ut, 
  lobortis eget,
| lacus. Sed diam.
| 
| \closing{Yours Sincerely,}
| 
| \end{letter}
| \end{document}
`----

I was hoping I could generate that from (something like) the 
following org
document:

,----
| #+latex_class: letter
| #+signature: Sender McSenderface
| #+address: My address \\ My town \\ My country
| #+recipient: Recipient name \\ Recipient address \\ Recipient 
   country
| #+opening: Dear Sir or Madam
| #+closing: Yours Sincerely,
| 
| Aliquam erat volutpat. Nunc eleifend leo vitae magna. In id erat 
  non orci
| commodo lobortis. Proin neque massa, cursus ut, gravida ut, 
  lobortis eget,
| lacus. Sed diam.
`----

Is this a pipe dream? I tried mucking about with 
org-latex-classes, and got as
far as this:

,----
| (add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
|              '("letter"
|                "\\documentclass{letter}
|                 \\usepackage{hyperref}
|                [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]
|                [NO-PACKAGES]"
|                ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
|                ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
|                ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
|                ("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}")
|                ("\\subparagraph{%s}" . "\\subparagraph*{%s}")))
`----

That at least got me past the "Unknow LaTeX class 'letter'" error, 
but it
doesn't produce a nice letter. I only get my lorem ipsum text. I 
can't figure
out how to get the \begin{letter}{...} stuff inside the 
\begin{document} part
automatically, nor how to inject text from #+recipient: into the 
second block
of the \begin{letter}{...} macro.

Any help appreciated.

Stig

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