Re: TeXlive 2012 and letter module

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>]

Am 29.07.2012 um 13:10 schrieb Martin Scholz <scholz.m82@gmail.com>:

> Thx Wolfgang,
> 
> this makes sense, as I still had your old examples online and build my letters after that I was just wondering if I did something wrong or missed something in using it, but that way it is more flexible and with an
> 
> /input{addrfile}
> 
> in the below way one should also be able to still use a kind of the old way having a separated addressfile but with a more flexible layout.
> 
> Again million thx for clearing it

The new version of the module has now a built in system for address entries, named “addressentry”.

With the command \defineaddressentry you can create a new entry and with the command \addressentry you can access them. Instead of specifying each entry by name you can also set a default name with the addressentry key for \startletter/\setupletter which is now used when omit the first argument of \addressentry.

\usemodule[letter]

\setupletteroptions
  [  bodyfont=calluna,
   whitespace=line]

\defineaddressentry
 [frodo]
 [lastname={Beutlin},
  firstname={Frodo},
  address={Der Bühl\\Beutelsend/Hobbingen im Auenland},
  1={Bilbo Beutlin},
  2={Rauchen von Pfeifenkraut},
  3={der Ringträger},
  4={Bilbos Erbe}]

\defineaddressentry
 [sam]
 [lastname={Gamdschie},
  firstname={Samweis},
  address={Beutelhaldenweg 3\\Hobbingen im Auenland},
  1={Rosie Kattun},
  2={Knullen},
  3={des Ringträgers treuester Gefährte}]

\defineaddressentry
 [tom]
 [lastname={Bombadil},
  firstname={Tom},
  address={Im Alten Wald},
  1={Goldbeere},
  2={trällern von Nonsensliedern},
  3={Meister von Wald, Wasser und Berg}]

\setupaddressentry
  [name={\addressentry[firstname]~\addressentry[lastname]}]

\startletter
 [addressentry=tom,
  toname={\addressentry[name]},
  toaddress={\addressentry[address]},
  opening={Lieber \addressentry[name],},
  closing={„O Frühling und Sommerzeit und danach wieder Frühling!\\O Wind auf dem Wasserfall und Lachen des Laubes!“}]

oder \addressentry[tom][3], wie Dich Deine geliebte \addressentry[tom][1] nennt. Kannst Du Dich noch an einen Herrn \addressentry[frodo][lastname], genauer gesagt \addressentry[frodo][firstname]~\addressentry[frodo][lastname], denn es gab ja auch noch den Herrn \addressentry[frodo][1], erinnern. Er war \addressentry[frodo][3] im dritten Zeitalter und \addressentry[frodo][3]. Begleitet wurde er von \addressentry[sam][firstname]~\addressentry[sam][lastname], \addressentry[sam][3].

Beider Vorlieben waren sehr weltlich. Der \addressentry[frodo][firstname] genoss das \addressentry[frodo][2], sein Gefährte schätzte eine gute Mahlzeit mit \addressentry[sam][2].

Weißt du noch? Mithrandir hat Dir bestimmt viel von ihnen erzählt.

\stopletter

Wolfgang


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