> Are you sure that everything done with gbrief can be reproduced 100% (I mean:
> 100%) with gbrief2?
Yes as far as I know.
> How about letters that use ERT commands that have been
> dropped in gbrief2?
As far as I know there are no dropped commands. The only one I could found id the command \BTX that
was used for BTX-adresses. This has been dropped with version 2.2 of g-brief before 2003.
> How about letters that include style files that rely on
> gbrief? For instance, my university's official LaTeX letter templates uses
> gbrief (not gbrief2). What you propose would break all my correspondances.
This doesn't break any correspondance, you can use g-brief2 and get the same output. Note that
g-brief is obsolete since 2003 now, and that g-brief doesn't work on MiKTeX and I guess also not
with TeXLive 2007, is a fact we can't ignore. Providing a layout for a class that don't work with
recent LaTeX-systems cannot be a solution.
Independent from LyX: Concerning your university, here at my faculty people are happy when someone
takes over to adapt the templates to recent LaTeX-versions as they don't know the LaTeX details how
to do this. So when you prepare an actual template I'm sure it will be accepted.
regards Uwe
