Matt Price writes:

> in North America it's letter-of-reference season for professors, and I am
> writing a lot of them. These are some of the only documents I still compose
> in libreoffice, because I need to use a letterhead that contains both image
> and text, and I need to insert a .png of my signature near the bottom.  I
> would much prefer to compose these letter in org and them export. In order
> to so I would need to preserve the letterhead and the signature somehow.
> Both these sections in my current letters occur within the
> <office:text>
> </office:text>
>
> section which I guess is always replaced by org on export.  My immediate
> question: Is there a way to preserve some of these contents? More
> generally: do people have template files they are very satisfied with? I
> would be happy to go straight to pdf via latex, if it were easy to
> accomplish the same effect that way I don't use latex at all myself so it
> might not be so easy for me :-/.
>
> For completeness, here is the xml for my letterhead (sorry it's rather
> long):
>
> ---------
> <office:body><office:text><text:sequence-decls><text:sequence-decl
> text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="."
> text:name="Illustration"/><text:sequence-decl
> text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="."
> text:name="Table"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2"
> text:separation-character="." text:name="Text"/><text:sequence-decl
> text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Drawing"/><text:sequence-decl
> text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Figure"/><text:sequence-decl
> text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="."
> text:name="Equation"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2"
> text:separation-character="."
> text:name="Listing"/></text:sequence-decls><text:h text:style-name="P6"
> text:outline-level="1"/><table:table table:name="Table1"
> table:style-name="Table1"><table:table-column
> table:style-name="Table1.A"/><table:table-column
> table:style-name="Table1.B"/><table:table-row
> table:style-name="Table1.1"><table:table-cell table:style-name="Table1.A1"
> office:value-type="string"><text:p text:style-name="P5"><draw:frame
> draw:style-name="fr1" draw:name="Image1" text:anchor-type="as-char"
> svg:width="1.857cm" svg:height="3.025cm" draw:z-index="0"><draw:image
> xlink:href="Pictures/100041D600001B2F00002FDA8AF7D675B9CA7740.wmf"
> xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad"
> loext:mime-type="image/x-wmf"/><draw:image
> xlink:href="Pictures/1000020100000107000001CF636AB597708AB63A.png"
> xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad"
> loext:mime-type="image/png"/></draw:frame></text:p></table:table-cell><table:table-cell
> table:style-name="Table1.A1" office:value-type="string"><text:p
> text:style-name="P5"><text:span text:style-name="T1">University of
> Toronto<text:tab/><text:tab/></text:span><text:span text:style-name="T2">
> <text:s text:c="2"/></text:span></text:p><text:p
> text:style-name="P5"><text:span text:style-name="T3">dept. of
> history</text:span><text:span text:style-name="T4">
> <text:s/></text:span></text:p><text:p text:style-name="P4"><text:span
> text:style-name="T5">Rm-2074 sidney smith, 100 st. george street, TORONTO,
> ONTARIO <text:s/>M5S 3G3 <text:s/>CANADA</text:span></text:p><text:p
> text:style-name="P4"><text:span text:style-name="T5">Telephone 416-978-3363
> <text:s text:c="3"/>Fax 416-978-4810
> <text:s/></text:span></text:p></table:table-cell></table:table-row></table:table><text:h
> text:style-name="P7" text:outline-level="1"><text:bookmark
> text:name="org54567cc"/>
> ------
>
> and here is my signature:
>
> --------
> <office:body><office:text><text:sequence-decls><text:sequence-decl
> text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="."
> text:name="Illustration"/><text:sequence-decl
> text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="."
> text:name="Table"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2"
> text:separation-character="." text:name="Text"/><text:sequence-decl
> text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Drawing"/><text:sequence-decl
> text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Figure"/><text:sequence-decl
> text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="."
> text:name="Equation"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2"
> text:separation-character="."
> text:name="Listing"/></text:sequence-decls><text:h text:style-name="P6"
> text:outline-level="1"/><table:table table:name="Table1"
> table:style-name="Table1"><table:table-column
> table:style-name="Table1.A"/><table:table-column
> table:style-name="Table1.B"/><table:table-row
> table:style-name="Table1.1"><table:table-cell table:style-name="Table1.A1"
> office:value-type="string"><text:p text:style-name="P5"><draw:frame
> draw:style-name="fr1" draw:name="Image1" text:anchor-type="as-char"
> svg:width="1.857cm" svg:height="3.025cm" draw:z-index="0"><draw:image
> xlink:href="Pictures/100041D600001B2F00002FDA8AF7D675B9CA7740.wmf"
> xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad"
> loext:mime-type="image/x-wmf"/><draw:image
> xlink:href="Pictures/1000020100000107000001CF636AB597708AB63A.png"
> xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad"
> loext:mime-type="image/png"/></draw:frame></text:p></table:table-cell><table:table-cell
> table:style-name="Table1.A1" office:value-type="string"><text:p
> text:style-name="P5"><text:span text:style-name="T1">University of
> Toronto<text:tab/><text:tab/></text:span><text:span text:style-name="T2">
> <text:s text:c="2"/></text:span></text:p><text:p
> text:style-name="P5"><text:span text:style-name="T3">dept. of
> history</text:span><text:span text:style-name="T4">
> <text:s/></text:span></text:p><text:p text:style-name="P4"><text:span
> text:style-name="T5">Rm-2074 sidney smith, 100 st. george street, TORONTO,
> ONTARIO <text:s/>M5S 3G3 <text:s/>CANADA</text:span></text:p><text:p
> text:style-name="P4"><text:span text:style-name="T5">Telephone 416-978-3363
> <text:s text:c="3"/>Fax 416-978-4810
> <text:s/></text:span></text:p></table:table-cell></table:table-row></table:table><text:h
> text:style-name="P7" text:outline-level="1"><text:bookmark
> text:name="org54567cc"/>
> --------------------
>
> As you can see, one occurs at the beginning of the <office:text> element,
> and the other at the end. Can I somehow insert them on export?
>
> Thanks as always for your help.