Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-02 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Of course. Add the two commented lines, and watch. \address \signature don't produce output, they define variables. Output is produced by \opening \closing Regards On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Roy C Bixler wrote: I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to Star Office

writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Roy C Bixler
Hi: I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to' addresses in the output DVI file. I was pretty shocked by this, since a long time back

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Roy C Bixler wrote: Hi: I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to' addresses in the output DVI file. Try adding the \opening{}

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Roy C Bixler
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to' addresses in the output DVI file. Try

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Roy C Bixler wrote: On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Try adding the \opening{} command like so: I added the appropriate section in Lyx and it worked. Any ideas why Latex acts this way? I'm no real expert. I guess it's just how latex.cls was coded up. The newcommand

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
roy rattled, I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to' addresses in the output DVI file. I was pretty shocked by this, since a

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
FWIW, here is a letter that works fine. Matthew \documentclass[a4paper]{letter} \usepackage{fullpage} \begin{document} \address{Selwyn College \\ Cambridge \\ CB3 9DQ} \signature{Matthew Vernon} \begin{letter}{The Most Revd. and Rt. Hon. Dr. David Hope \\ The Palace \\ Bishopthorpe \\