Hi Allan Marvin, ... (please add your name here ;-)
My I add my 2 cents ?
Yes the letter.cls may be really annoying, because of the imposed order of
the input commands. There was 2 distinct problems related in this thread :
- adjustement of the letter fields in the (dvi,postcript) output :
either you find/wait for a new letter class (for french letter style, have
a look at lettre.cls from D. Megevand, Observatoire de Genève), or you
have to use latex code (e.g. minipages, boxes for sender/address fields).
There is nothing LyX can do for you (?), except distributing the layout or
template files you wrote ;-).
- by-passing the imposed order of fields in the class, and thus
getting a somewhat WYSIWIG display and corrext html output : Now LyX
already gave you the tools to do that, by use of the layout file which
makes a distinction between the LyX's layouts and the related Latex
commands or environment. The idea is to define new latex command for the
different fields, and then reorder everything as expected by the latex
class. I started this kind of work on a personnal "lettre.layout" (for the
package mentionned above, not for letter.cls, sorry) file, which should be
somewhere in the mailing list archive. I know that somebody already
improved this layout, but I didn't notice any pointer to the resulting
layout (this doesn't mean that it was not made available :-) ).
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Allan Rae wrote:
> IIRC there have been a number of conversations about letter.cls over
> the years and this wierd idea that the signature block comes before
> the opening has always been a "feature" of the letter class. Yes,
> this is incredibly dumb in just about everybody's opinion but it is a
> latex problem not LyX. That said you are right that there is a
> conflict in the documentation.
>
> The export to html problem you are experiencing is due to the way the
> various converters work: they all expect that the document
> environments will actually be rendered in the same order they appear
> in the file. In the letter.cls case this is sadly not true.
>
> Someone (Larry Marso?) once pointed out a new letter class that was
> being developed but we have never received an appropriate layout file
> to make it available from LyX. Sorry, but I can't remember the name
> of the class either (guessing at newletter.cls but a quick search of
> CTAN shows 4 "*letter.cls" classes)
>
> Allan. (ARRae)
>
>
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