black-snake/latex-letter

A LaTeX letter template that uses the scrlttr2 class of the popular KOMA-Script.

LaTeX-letter

A LaTeX letter template that uses the scrlttr2 class of the popular KOMA-Script.

Example

To get an impression of the letter's design and layout please see the picture below or take a look at the example.pdf.

Usage

The letter template basically consists of four user-relevant files:

file	description
main.tex	This is the main file containing basic settings, package usages and references to macros.
sender.lco	The sender information are stored in this separate file for reasons of modularity.
content.tex	The actual content of the TeX document is stored in this separate file for reasons of modularity.
helpers/macros.tex	This file comprises typographic and layout customization as well as macros for the header, footer and location fields.

General Note

Due to the barcode functionality, which makes use of the package pst-barcode and thus on the underlying package pstricks, the .tex files should be compiled with xelatex.

Please refer to the KOMA guide for a comprehensive description of the KOMA variables used.

main.tex

The sender information are included via the \LoadLetterOption{} command which loads an .lco file. To do so, you must specify the file name of the .lco file without suffix as command parameter.

sender.lco

This is the file where the sender information are stored. Most (or all) standard sender attributes for the scrlttr2 class should be stated in there; so it's pretty straightforward to fill in the blanks (or better to say: to modify the already defined variables).

content.tex

In this file the specific content of the TeX document is stored. It contains one letter environment for each letter.

helpers/macros.tex

As mentioned before, this file applies specific typographic and layout customization to the letter template. Usually, there is no necessity to modify this file. However, if one wants to adjust these basic settings, this is the place to do so.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Markus Kohm for his great KOMA-Script classes for LaTeX.
• Thanks to Enrico Gregorio for the UUID v4 generator snippet.