Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-02 Thread Sanjeev Gupta
Of course. Add the two commented lines, and watch. \address & \signature don't produce output, they define variables. Output is produced by \opening & \closing Regards On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Roy C Bixler wrote: > I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to > Star Offi

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
FWIW, here is a letter that works fine. Matthew \documentclass[a4paper]{letter} \usepackage{fullpage} \begin{document} \address{Selwyn College \\ Cambridge \\ CB3 9DQ} \signature{Matthew Vernon} \begin{letter}{The Most Revd. and Rt. Hon. Dr. David Hope \\ The Palace \\ Bishopthorpe \\ Yor

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
roy rattled, > I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to > Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output > looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to' > addresses in the output DVI file. I was pretty shocked by this, since > a

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Roy C Bixler wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Try adding the \opening{} command like so: > > I added the appropriate section in Lyx and it worked. Any ideas why Latex > acts this way? I'm no real expert. I guess it's just how latex.cls was coded up. The newcommand \o

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Roy C Bixler
On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to > > Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output > > looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to' > > addresses in the output DVI file. >

Re: writing a letter in LaTeX

1998-12-01 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Roy C Bixler wrote: > Hi: > > I tried using Lyx to write a letter and, in the end, had to resort to > Star Office 5 because of an apparent bug in LaTeX. The Lyx output > looked fine, but LaTeX did not include either the 'from' or 'to' > addresses in the output DVI file. Try adding the \opening