On Thursday 01 February 2007 01:11, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote:
> > the one thing that stops my total conversion to ConTeXt is my lack of
> > understanding of, er, context. I've studied the manual
> > "Corresponcence" which presupposes far better understanding of
> > ConTeXt than I currently possess. I imagine though that a useful
> > short working example would help.
> >
> > anyone?
>
> I do not use the m-letter module because it is too complicated for my
> needs. If you think about it, a letter is usually something fairly
> straight-forward. I have a personal p-letter.tex module which does
> something like
>
> <setup layout>
>
> <setup fonts>
>
> <setup subject>
>
> \setuppagenumbering[location={bottom,middle}]
>
> \setupwhitespace[big]
> \setupindenting[medium]
> \setupblank[big]
>
>
> Yes, that's it! In the letter, I manually write the typesetting
> commands in the letter
>
> \starttext
>
> \startlines
> To,
> Whoever ...
> ....
> \stoplines
>
> \blank[3*big]
>
> \startlines
> From,
> Me ....
> \stoplines
>
> \blank[3*big]
>
> Date: \currentdate
>
> \blank[3*big]
>
> \subject Whatever
>
> Dear ...,
>
> \setupindenting[yes,next]
>
> My letter
>
> in differnt paragraphs
>
> \setupindeinting[no]
>
> \blank[2*big]
>
> \startlines
> Your Sincerely
> \blank[big]
> Name...
> \stoplines
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> This is fairly primitive, but I only need to write a formal letter
> once every blue moon, and this setup works for me. If you have more
> frequent need, then you may want more structure in the letters. If you
> can finalize how you want to input your letter, creating a personal
> module is not that hard with ConTeXt. I think that this is one of
> ConTeXt's strongest points. In LaTeX, you first find a package, then
> you see that the package does not do 100% of what you want, then you
> read the code of the package and try to figure out how to make it do
> what you want. With ConTeXt, once you know what you want, it is fairly
> straight forward to write your personal module to achieve that. But of
> course, ConTeXt needs more modules for things like journals and
> conferences which have specific layout requirements.
>
> Aditya
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I use letterformat.tex from _The TeXBook_. . Why not? The tricky part is
setting up the standard letterheads. Writing the letter then becomes very
simple. Here is a live example with some hiding of the real identity:
\magnification=\magstep1
\input letterformat
\dogletterhead
\address
Mr.Nobody
17 Nowhere Street
Winchester, VA 22601
\body
<put body text here>.
\closing
Best wishes,
John \& Peggy Culleton
\annotations
encl: Pedigree, two copies of contract.
\endletter
%\makelabel
\bye
-----------------------------------
With very minor modifications, such as substituting \noheaderandfooterlines
for \nopagenumbers and a similar replacement for \headline etc. in
letterformat.tex it could be made to run under Context too. I just ran the
above example in Context.
I use whatever tool gets the job done.
--
John Culleton
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