[XeTeX] A "box" in the bottom-left corner of the first page

[Székely Gábor Balázs]

Greetings,

maybe this is a LaTeX-related question, not so much XeTeX-related,  
but as I'm using XeTeX, I'd like to see a solution that does work in  
this environment.

I decided to adapt XeTeX to my office's usage. I googled around, have  
seen numerous examples, but have not found anything that does what I  
need. We often have special letters (in Italian as well as in  
Hungarian). One of their speciality is that the recipient's address  
_always_ must go on the first page of the letter, in the bottom-left  
corner and with a line above it the length of which corresponds to  
the length of the longest line of the address. Of course the address  
can't be split and there should be some vertical space above the line  
where the text of the letter starts (or, in this case, ends on that  
page), and some space below the line so that it doesn't stick to the  
address.

With word processors it is really a pain to adjust it every time we  
get a letter, then we rewrite it, it reflows, part of the address  
goes to the next page, or it gets its own page, and so on... I was  
hoping that the TeX world could easily handle such things.

Maybe I could start the letter by specifying, say
\recipient{First line \\ Second line \\ Third line a bit longer \\ End}
then write the rest of the letter, and when typesetting, the program  
would place that block automatically where it belongs.

Thank you very much!

Gábor Székely




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