Re: How to export casual letter without from and to address?

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> On 2016-03-05, at 19:56, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Saturday,  5 Mar 2016 at 10:47, York Zhao wrote:
>>>> 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"?
>>
>> Ah, okay, I see. Well, you could try something along the lines of:
>>
>> #+begin_src org
>>   ,#+title:
>>   ,#+author:
>>   ,#+date:
>>   ,#+options: toc:nil num:nil
>>   ,*
>>   Hi Flora
>>
>>   Blah blah blah!
>>
>>   Regards,
>>
>>   # leave some room for signature
>>   \vspace*{1.5cm}
>>
>>   York
>> #+end_src
>>
>> where the headline has a space after the "*".  You might want to play
>> with parindent and parskip LaTeX variables if you don't like the
>> default.
>>
>> Alternatively, there may be other LaTeX styles that could give you what
>> you want with a little customisation although probably unlikely.  For
>> instance, have a look at http://www.latextemplates.com/ and maybe create
>> your own using the custom class example?
>
> You could also stick something like
>
> \let\maketitle=\relax

This only works in latex.  A backend-agnostic solution could be:

     #+options: title:nil

Though maybe it's undesirable in some other aspect.

Rasmus

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