You can use LaTeX to typeset letters, both personal and business. The
letter
document class 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 classes, i.e., you must have the following commands as a minimum:
\documentclass{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
, do not 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. With both these
commands, use \\
to separate the items.
These commands are used with the letter
class.