Synopsis:
\documentclass{letter} \address{senders address} % return address \signature{sender name} \begin{document} \begin{letter}{recipient address} \opening{salutation} letter body \closing{closing text} \end{letter} ... \end{document}
Produce one or more letters.
Each letter is in a separate letter
environment, whose argument recipient address often contains multiple lines separated with a double backslash, (\\
). For example, you might have:
\begin{letter}{Ninon de l'Enclos \\ l'h\^otel Sagonne} ... \end{letter}
The start of the letter
environment resets the page number to 1, and the footnote number to 1 also.
The sender address and sender name are common to all of the letters, whether there is one or more, so these are best put in the preamble. As with the recipient address, often sender address contains multiple lines separated by a double backslash (\\
). LaTeX will put the sender name under the closing, after a vertical space for the traditional hand-written signature.
Each letter
environment body begins with a required \opening
command such as \opening{Dear Madam or Sir:}
. The letter body text is ordinary LaTeX so it can contain everything from enumerated lists to displayed math, except that commands such as \chapter
that make no sense in a letter are turned off. Each letter
environment body typically ends with a \closing
command such as \closing{Yours,}
.
Additional material may come after the \closing
. You can say who is receiving a copy of the letter with a command like \cc{the
Boss \\ the Boss's Boss}
. There’s a similar \encl
command for a list of enclosures. And, you can add a postscript with \ps
.
LaTeX’s default is to indent the sender name and the closing above it by a length of \longindentation
. By default this is 0.5\textwidth
. To make them flush left, put \setlength{\longindentation}{0em}
in your preamble.
To set a fixed date use something like \renewcommand{\today}{1958-Oct-12}
. If put in your preamble then it will apply to all the letters.
This example shows only one letter
environment. The three lines marked as optional are typically omitted.
\documentclass{letter} \address{Sender's street \\ Sender's town} \signature{Sender's name \\ Sender's title} % optional: \location{Mailbox 13} % optional: \telephone{(102) 555-0101} \begin{document} \begin{letter}{Recipient's name \\ Recipient's address} \opening{Sir:} % optional: \thispagestyle{firstpage} I am not interested in entering a business arrangement with you. \closing{Your most humble, etc.,} \end{letter} \end{document}
These commands are used with the letter
class.
• \address | Sender’s return address. | |
• \cc | Carbon copy list. | |
• \closing | Saying goodbye. | |
• \encl | List of enclosed material. | |
• \location | Sender’s organizational location. | |
• \makelabels | Make address labels. | |
• \name | Sender’s name, for the return address. | |
• \opening | Saying hello. | |
• \ps | Adding a postscript. | |
• \signature | Sender’s signature. | |
• \telephone | Sender’s phone number. |
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