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Subject: Re: writing letters using the latex letters class?
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On 2016-12-08 0:46, Stig Brautaset <stig@brautaset.org> wrote:
 > 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.

I can't actually help in using the letter class, but have you checked
"Creating letters with KOMA-Script scrlttr2 and Org-mode" [1]? I've been
using it excursively for all  my /formal/ letter writing and it works
great. Maybe you can give that a try? Plus it produces really nice
letters :) 

Best,

Sebastian


[1] http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/koma-letter-export.html

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