You can use LaTeX to typeset letters, both personal and business. The
letter
document style is designed to make a number of letters at
once, although you can make just one if you so desire.
Your `.tex' source file has the same minimum commands as the other document styles, i.e., you must have the following commands as a minimum:
\documentstyle{letter} \begin{document} ... letters ... \end{document}
Each letter is a letter
environment, whose argument is the name
and address of the recipient. For example, you might have:
\begin{letter}{Mr. Joe Smith\\ 2345 Princess St. \\ Edinburgh, EH1 1AA} ... \end{letter}
The letter itself begins with the \opening
command. The text of
the letter follows. It is typed as ordinary LaTeX input. Commands that
make no sense in a letter, like \chapter
, don't work. The letter
closes with a \closing
command.
After the closing
, you can have additional material. The
\cc
command produces the usual "cc: ...". There's also a similar
\encl
command for a list of enclosures.