From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40443 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Discussion: correspondence with ConTeXt Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:21:49 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0804172321g78e1d2e3td38d579ae2e31126@mail.gmail.com> References: <115224fb0804170113w70db8dadpb8528a18ef20c338@mail.gmail.com> <20080417204829.GA31968@gaston.couberia.bzh> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208500064 18301 80.91.229.12 (18 Apr 2008 06:27:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:27:44 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Apr 18 08:28:22 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jmk56-0003oA-W7 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:28:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3116A1FCA1; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:27:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27722-03-10; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:27:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A7A1FCE5; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:24:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C03AC1FDC7 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:24:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26954-01-14 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:23:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.156]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B00C61FCE3 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:21:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 6so369729ywa.74 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:21:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.154.20 with SMTP id g20mr3041491ybo.62.1208499709326; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:21:49 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.49.21 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:21:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20080417204829.GA31968@gaston.couberia.bzh> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40443 Archived-At: On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Peter M=FCnster wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > > After nearly one and a helf years and 2 major revisions I have > > nearly finished my module and would will make it now available > > also to other users. But before I make my last stable version > > online I want to discuss a few points with interested users. > > Hello Wolfgang, > > Already in advance: thank you very much! With such a module, I can final= ly > forget really all about LaTeX. Sometimes I still use scrlttr2.cls and at > these moments I swear to write a letter module one day. Now I know, that I > won't need to do this difficult (for me) task. You're free to your own interface for the module, i.e. it is possible to change the way to change the user interface. I provide besides my default interface also one to use the one from Donald Knuth in the TeXBook and also the interface from Hans Hagens m-letter. > > Before I start to give you information about my module and > > give you the chance to mention your own wishes or thoughts > > about the inteface I'm interested what do you use currently to > > write you own correspondence (letter, invoices etc.). > > First, I used lettre.cls (LaTeX class). It has one really great feature: > the vertical spaces are recalculated at every pass, in order to get a last > page filled at least to 50%. Without this, you can easily get a second pa= ge > with only the closing and the signature. > > Then, for some reason that I forgot, I switched to scrlttr2.cls. And I > patched it to get the same minimum-50%-feature. Unfortunately, this patch= is > no more working with recent versions of scrlttr2... > (-> http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/LaTeX/lettre.lco ) > > I would welcome such a feature in your module! I dont't have such a feature in the module I find it interesting. Page breaks before the signature can still happen at the moment because I hadn't done anything against this problem but it is on my Todo list. 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