On Thursday 01 February 2007 01:11, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren wrote:
the one thing that stops my total conversion to ConTeXt is my lack of understanding of, er, context. I've studied the manual "Corresponcence" which presupposes far better understanding of ConTeXt than I currently possess. I imagine though that a useful short working example would help.
anyone?
I do not use the m-letter module because it is too complicated for my needs. If you think about it, a letter is usually something fairly straight-forward. I have a personal p-letter.tex module which does something like
<setup layout>
<setup fonts>
<setup subject>
\setuppagenumbering[location={bottom,middle}]
\setupwhitespace[big] \setupindenting[medium] \setupblank[big]
Yes, that's it! In the letter, I manually write the typesetting commands in the letter
\starttext
\startlines To, Whoever ... .... \stoplines
\blank[3*big]
\startlines From, Me .... \stoplines
\blank[3*big]
Date: \currentdate
\blank[3*big]
\subject Whatever
Dear ...,
\setupindenting[yes,next]
My letter
in differnt paragraphs
\setupindeinting[no]
\blank[2*big]
\startlines Your Sincerely \blank[big] Name... \stoplines
\stoptext
This is fairly primitive, but I only need to write a formal letter once every blue moon, and this setup works for me. If you have more frequent need, then you may want more structure in the letters. If you can finalize how you want to input your letter, creating a personal module is not that hard with ConTeXt. I think that this is one of ConTeXt's strongest points. In LaTeX, you first find a package, then you see that the package does not do 100% of what you want, then you read the code of the package and try to figure out how to make it do what you want. With ConTeXt, once you know what you want, it is fairly straight forward to write your personal module to achieve that. But of course, ConTeXt needs more modules for things like journals and conferences which have specific layout requirements.
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I use letterformat.tex from _The TeXBook_. . Why not? The tricky part is setting up the standard letterheads. Writing the letter then becomes very simple. Here is a live example with some hiding of the real identity: \magnification=\magstep1 \input letterformat \dogletterhead \address Mr.Nobody 17 Nowhere Street Winchester, VA 22601 \body <put body text here>. \closing Best wishes, John \& Peggy Culleton \annotations encl: Pedigree, two copies of contract. \endletter %\makelabel \bye ----------------------------------- With very minor modifications, such as substituting \noheaderandfooterlines for \nopagenumbers and a similar replacement for \headline etc. in letterformat.tex it could be made to run under Context too. I just ran the above example in Context. I use whatever tool gets the job done. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com