From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: How to export casual letter without from and to address? Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 18:56:11 +0000 Message-ID: <87k2lg69f8.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <8737s56xom.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acHNF-0006bI-HZ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 13:56:22 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acHNA-0004Y2-Gf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 13:56:21 -0500 Received: from mail-db3on0112.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([157.55.234.112]:4452 helo=emea01-db3-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acHNA-0004Ws-7R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 13:56:16 -0500 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: York Zhao Cc: emacs-orgmode On Saturday, 5 Mar 2016 at 10:47, York Zhao wrote: >> Why use a letter exporter (koma?) if you don't want something that looks like >> a letter? > > I wanted it to be a letter in all aspects, except that it doesn't have the "from > address" and "to address" in the header. More specifically, I want my letter > looks like: > > Hi Flora, > > Blah blah blah! > > Regards, > > York > >> simply write it as a normal org document and export it to pdf or odt or >> whatever you wish to send. > > The problem is, it seems to me that to export to pdf, LaTeX export is the only > way to go. But then you would have to choose a document class. Obviously you > can't use "article", nor "book". So my question may probably rephrase as: which > latex document class do you use to export the letter "as is"? Ah, okay, I see. Well, you could try something along the lines of: #+begin_src org ,#+title: ,#+author: ,#+date: ,#+options: toc:nil num:nil ,* Hi Flora Blah blah blah! Regards, # leave some room for signature \vspace*{1.5cm} York #+end_src where the headline has a space after the "*". You might want to play with parindent and parskip LaTeX variables if you don't like the default. Alternatively, there may be other LaTeX styles that could give you what you want with a little customisation although probably unlikely. For instance, have a look at http://www.latextemplates.com/ and maybe create your own using the custom class example? Finally, you could export the above (without the vspace line) to text and then use another tool to create the PDF... such as a2ps and ps2pdf on linux. HTH, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.91.1, Org release_8.3.4-626-gb62d55