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From: "David Rogers" <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: American-style letters with t-letter?
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 11:26:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <495f0f2e0805161126t1fecaa36v1330269103f4beec@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <115224fb0805160012o4ca4baa7j54a208f20c8cff7e@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:02 PM, David Rogers
> <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all (but especially Wolfgang Schuster):
>>
>> I'd like to use Wolfgang's t-letter module to set up a very basic
>> American-style letter. I see (by looking into t-letter.tex) that there
>> are at least plans for this to be possible. Is there a little example
>> anywhere of how to get started?
>>
>> (Really, for my purposes, the basic DIN example as given in lm.pdf is
>> pretty good - just wondering what the other possibility looks like.)
>
> Hi David,
>
> I planned to provide a few american letter styles and you saw my
> comments in t-letter but I'm interested to know if want the element
> structure like normal block, semiblock etc. [1] formats where the
> position from every element depends on the last element or if it is
> acceptable to write styles where the positions for the insideaddress,
> the date and all other elements is fixed [2,page 4] like in my current
> styles and only the body text, the subject etc. depends on the page
> layout.
>
> This is important to know for me both if have to use two different
> systems for both solutions and the first requires more work because
> I have to take care to allow you to switch between all styles.

Thanks Wolfgang. I don't know the correct answer to this, so I'll wait
for someone who does.

David
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-16 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-15 21:02 David Rogers
2008-05-16  7:12 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-05-16 18:26   ` David Rogers [this message]
2008-05-19  6:07     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-05-29  6:36       ` Wolfgang Schuster

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