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Questions: Any (business) letter style and disable page numbering? #453
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Business letter: Not yet, but if you write one I'll commit it. :-) Folios: The command to turn off folios completely is |
I can take a crack at it. Should I follow the instructions ~Chapter 9 like with Bringhurst or is there an easier way to go about it? I was always somewhat unconvinced with LaTeX's letter template. I'm a block-style guy myself. |
The chapter 9 instructions should be fine, but you may find it easier to have a look at the other classes and modify one of them. I never know what a letter class is meant to do, to be honest. Maybe my letters are not typographically sophisticated enough. |
OK, if you could give me a target class to consult, that'd be great. I don't currently have the git repo checked out. It sounds like I may have to do this if I really want to dig into it. So, letters don't have to be super fancy, but they have some pretty basic elements: A date, a sender address, a receiver address, a greeting, a body, and often a salutation. The LaTex template I think made template arguments out of the sender and receiver. Maybe it auto-generated the date. I'd have to go look. There are some variations documented here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/653/01 for example. In there they have suggested top margins and distances between some elements. Nothing is stopping you from doing this by hand of course, but if there was something that sped up the process a little that would be helpful. |
See also #455. |
I've started you off with |
OK, I just tried to sync the HEAD with sile using brew, and it didn't update anything. I'm still new to brew. Do I have to use git manually to get this? |
I don't know, I'm sorry. But if you just want to grab the file and put it into your |
@clintolsen when you did the brew install did you |
I did run
I do have I'm looking at my install for classes in |
So it looks like you installed the git version as of a few weeks ago, and Homebrew is now happy that you have a git version and doesn't want to install it again; it's just that the git HEAD has moved on. You could uninstall and reinstall, but if you want to work on stuff you may find it easier to work on a git checkout directly. |
I performed a reinstall, and this seemed to have worked. Before I saw:
Now if I install again, I see:
And letter.lua is there now. I have to admit I'm pretty underwhelmed with how brew works. It's not clear to me why reinstalling is better than having some kind of install --force (which apparently has been removed from brew). |
Yeah, I think the Please note that the
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Unless @clintolsen wants to add something to it, @simoncozens had included a "letter" basic class to SILE in 2017 - Was there anything else that prevented this old issue to be closed? |
Happy to re-evalute if there is something missing. |
Hi:
It's probably a silly question, but is there a business letter template yet? I understand Sile is pretty new and may not have that yet.
Also, I tried
numbering=no
in the\begin
attribute section and this didn't seem to get rid of page numbers. I realize I co-opted that from a section describing chapters, so I didn't expect it would work.begin[papersize=letter,numbering=no]{document}
Thanks,
-Clint
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