From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41075 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David Rogers" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: American-style letters with t-letter? Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 11:26:05 -0700 Message-ID: <495f0f2e0805161126t1fecaa36v1330269103f4beec@mail.gmail.com> References: <495f0f2e0805151402t683694a4w99f7ffc0c95160e2@mail.gmail.com> <115224fb0805160012o4ca4baa7j54a208f20c8cff7e@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210962525 17968 80.91.229.12 (16 May 2008 18:28:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 18:28:45 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri May 16 20:29:22 2008 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 1Jx4fM-0001hT-G4 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 20:28:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453271FB74; Fri, 16 May 2008 20:27:42 +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 20760-01-2; Fri, 16 May 2008 20:26:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E4251FBC6; Fri, 16 May 2008 20:26:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 547B81FBC6 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 20:26:42 +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 18579-02-2 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 20:26:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B58501FB74 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 20:26:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u40so4022798ugc.50 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 11:26:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.66.219.11 with SMTP id r11mr12043822ugg.31.1210962365715; Fri, 16 May 2008 11:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.66.240.11 with HTTP; Fri, 16 May 2008 11:26:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <115224fb0805160012o4ca4baa7j54a208f20c8cff7e@mail.gmail.com> 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:41075 Archived-At: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:02 PM, David Rogers > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________