From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Borkowski Subject: Re: How to export casual letter without from and to address? Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 20:52:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87twkkzori.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <8737s56xom.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87k2lg69f8.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34405) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acIFI-0003s2-4p for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 14:52:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acIFE-0008Lq-UM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 14:52:12 -0500 Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:37852) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acIFE-0008L4-MQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 14:52:08 -0500 In-reply-to: <87k2lg69f8.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> 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: Eric S Fraga Cc: York Zhao , emacs-orgmode On 2016-03-05, at 19:56, Eric S Fraga 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 in the preamble. Dirty hack, but it should get rid of the title/author/date stuff. > HTH, > eric Hth, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University