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I would like to write a letter to someone. So far I've discovered two packages letter and lettre (written by a french guy). Both are nice, but I would like to customize the layout of the letter.

For instance, I would like to move the date below the address and move the address to fit my windowed envelope.

I spent some time trying to achieve this, unfortunately these packages seems not very modular. So I am thinking to rewrite a very simple package where each letter component (address, date, ...) are using textblock

\begin{textblock}{hwidthi}[hhx i,hhyi](hx i,hyi) ... \end{textblock}

What would be the most straightforward solution in my case?

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  • The date is above the address in lettre because it's the traditional layout out of letters in French. Commented Apr 23, 2016 at 8:56
  • It is, but the envelopes I bought have a window located slightly above. Commented Apr 23, 2016 at 8:57
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    I found scrlttr2 a very convenient package. Commented Apr 23, 2016 at 9:01
  • You can easily customise the layout of the lettre heading: it is a picture environment, with a number of \parboxes. The default placement and dimensions of these boxes is explained in § 2.7.3 (De l'entête), pp 25-26 of the documentation. Commented Apr 23, 2016 at 9:23
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    letter, scrlttr2, newlfm and isodoc are all discussed in Correspondence if that's of any help. Commented Apr 23, 2016 at 10:03

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Maybe this helps - here's the code of my personal standard letter using the scrlttr2 document class.

\documentclass[a4paper]{scrlttr2} % Options % true/on/yes oder false/off/no \KOMAoptions{ parskip=half, fromphone=off, fromrule=off, fromfax=off, fromemail=off, fromurl=off, addrfield=on, foldmarks=true, backaddress=on } % Standard packages \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[english]{babel} % Additional packages \usepackage{csquotes} \usepackage[]{url} % Some sombols - just in case :) \usepackage{textcomp} %% Setting the Variables \setkomavar{fromname}{Dr.~Manuel Kuehner} \setkomavar{signature}{\small\sffamily Dr.~Manuel Kuehner} \setkomavar{fromaddress}{SomeStreet 2\\ 71706 SomeTown} \setkomavar{fromphone}{0123-123456789 (Mobil)} \setkomavar{fromemail}{[email protected]} \setkomavar{fromurl}{www.manuelkuehner.de} \setkomavar{frombank} {% Konto 000\,000\,000, Postbank Berlin, BLZ 100\,100\,10\\ IBAN DE\,08\,10010010\,123456789, BIC PBNKDEFF } % Footnote with bank account, custom code \setkomavar{firstfoot} {% \parbox[b]{\linewidth} {% \centering\usekomavar{frombank}% }% } % Letter specific information % Leave the {} empty and it will not appear. \setkomavar{customer}{} \setkomavar{subject}{Cancellation} \setkomavar{myref}{--} \setkomavar{yourmail}{} \setkomavar{yourref}{} \setkomavar{invoice}{} \setkomavar{date}{\today} % Date of letter \begin{document} \begin{letter} {% Adressaten Name Name\\ Street Street\\ Town Town } \opening{Dear Mr. Mueller,} \enlargethispage{0\baselineskip} I would like to cancel my newspaper. \closing{Best regards} \ps{} \encl{Attached documents} % comment out if not needed \end{letter} \end{document}

Here's the result of the code above:

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But I must admit that it took me a while until I figured out how the document class works and until I was satisfied with the result. But I use it for years now without changing the code.

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  • Seems the space between Dr. and M is too large (frenchspacing). Try Dr.~M in all matching occasions. Commented Apr 24, 2016 at 2:58
  • @Johannes_B Or Dr.\ M Commented Aug 12, 2019 at 20:19
  • @CarLaTeX Thx for the hint! Commented Aug 13, 2019 at 18:21
  • @Johannes_B Thanks for the hint (sorry, that was years ago but I missed it apparently that time)! Commented Aug 13, 2019 at 18:22
  • You're welcome! Commented Aug 13, 2019 at 18:58

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