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yodlletter(7)		  Your Own Document Language		 yodlletter(7)

NAME
       yodlletter - Yodl's `letter' document type

SYNOPSIS
       letter(language)(date)(subject)(opening)(salutation)(author)

       The letter document type	was implemented	to write LaTeX letters.

DESCRIPTION
       The  letter  document  type was specifically implemented	to write LaTeX
       letters,	using LaTeX's brief.cls	document class.	It is  available  only
       for the LaTeX (yodl2latex(1)) converter.

       This  manual page briefly describes Yodl's  letter document type.  This
       document	type is	specific enough	that it	warrants a separate manpage.

       letter documents	do not allow you to use	the `standard' sectioning com-
       mands (e.g., sect() and subsect()).  You	can, however, use macros  that
       are normally used within	such sections, such as description(), itemiza-
       tion(), bf() or em().

       Several	specific macros, to be used in the preamble, are available for
       the letter document type. They are:

       o      AfourEnlarged(): Enlarges	the usable height of  A4  paper	 by  2
	      cm.: the top margin is reduced by	2 cm.

       o      letteraddenda(type)(value):  Adds	 an  addendum  at the end of a
	      letter.  type should be bijlagen (i.e., appendices), cc  or  ps.
	      Use  nl()	within the value section if multiple addenda of	a cer-
	      tain type	are used.

       o      letteradmin(yourdate)(yourref): Puts yourletterfrom and yourref-
	      erence elements in the letter. If	left empty, two	dashes are in-
	      serted.

       o      letterfootitem(name)(value): Puts	a footer at the	bottom of let-
	      ter-pages. Up to three will usually fit. For example,

       o      letterreplyto(name)(address)(zip city): Defines the  `reply  to'
	      address.

       o      letterto(element): Adds element as an additional line to the ad-
	      dress  of	 the  addressee. Use one  element for each line	of the
	      addressee's address. Up to five lines will usually fit. A	 sixth
	      line may be squeezed in, if necessary.

       The letter) macro itself	requires the following arguments:

       o      language:	 select	 english, dutch, or another language supported
	      by the babel.sty style;

       o      date: the	letter's date. Use your	own date-convention. The  text
	      specified	here will be used as the letter's date;

       o      subject: a short indication as to	why you	wrote the letter

       o      opening: the letter's opening, e.g., Dear	Linus,;

       o      salutation: the letter's closing phrase, e.g., Kind regards,;

       o      author: the name of the letter's author. nl() macros can be used
	      here,  but  the  brief class will	also restrict the width	of the
	      author-lines by itself.

SEE ALSO
       latex(1),  yodlstriproff(1),  yodl(1),  yodlbuiltins(7),	  yodlconvert-
       ers(1),	yodlletter(7), yodlmacros(7), yodlmanpage(7), yodlpost(1), yo-
       dlverbinsert(1).

BUGS
       -

AUTHOR
       Frank B.	Brokken	(f.b.brokken@rug.nl),

yodl_4.01.00.tar.gz		   1996-2017			 yodlletter(7)

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