Re: letter/correspondence module

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

Am 2009-07-02 um 15:56 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:

>> I'd like to change the reference table of alternative "e" a little  
>> bit to fit my logo:
>>
>> voffset=130mm, % absolute coordinates
>> hoffset=40mm,
>> width=20mm, % width of label
>>
>> It doesn't work in \setupletterstyle[reference][].
>> Where must I put it?
>> Or should I define my own alternative, like yours in default.nli ?
>
> The alternatives a–e are not so easy to move to the place you prefer  
> because
> the start of the bodytext depends on the position (I try to keep  
> always two lines
> between them) but you can copy the layout of one element to another  
> one with
>
>  \copyletterlement[<element>][<new alternative>][<old alternative>]
>
> which looks for you
>
>  \copyletterelement[reference][hraban][e]
>
> You can now place the reference line with
>
>  \setupletterstyle
>    [reference]
>    [hoffset=...,
>     voffset=...]
>
> and the width of the elements in the reference line with
>
>  \setupletter
>    [phone,street,...]
>    [width=20mm]

Thank you! Offset works, width doesn't (i.e. stays automatical).

>> BTW: I'm using your simplefonts module for the first time in the  
>> same project - works great, thank you!
>> (I had to refresh my font database several times, until LuaTeX  
>> could find all faces of my font family, but that's not your  
>> module's fault.)
>
> mtxrun --script fonts --list --pattern=... helps to find the right  
> name.

I know, it's in the wiki (Fonts_in_LuaTeX). Thanks anyway.

> BTW: You can another example for the use of the simplefonts module
> in the source of the correspondence manual (correspondence- 
> environment.tex).

Just wanted to ask if you published the source anywhere - didn't check  
the "source" tree before...
Now I have enough examples for the moment, I think ;-)



Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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