[XeTeX] A "box" in the bottom-left corner of the first page
Jonathan Kew
jonathan_kew at sil.org
Tue May 1 12:44:05 CEST 2007
> On 1 May 2007, at 9:45 am, Székely Gábor Balázs wrote:
>>
>> 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.
OK, I couldn't resist hacking at macros a bit! :)
Here is a version with a {recipient} environment that lets you enter
the name/address more cleanly, without explicit boxes. Maybe this
could give you a basis for something useful.
JK
% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{letter}
\usepackage{fontspec,xunicode,xltxtra}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Adobe Garamond Pro}
\usepackage{float}
\newfloat{recipientfloat}{b}{}
\newenvironment{recipient}
{\begin{recipientfloat}
\setbox0=\vbox\bgroup}
{\egroup
\vbox{\setbox2=\vbox{}
\unvbox0 \shrinklinestofit
\hrule \vskip5pt
\unvbox2}
\end{recipientfloat}}
\def\shrinklinestofit{
\setbox0=\lastbox
\ifhbox0
\skip0=\lastskip \unskip
\count0=\lastpenalty \unpenalty
\setbox2=\vbox{\vskip\skip0\hbox{\unhbox0\unskip}\box2}
\let\next=\shrinklinestofit
\else \let\next=\relax \fi \next}
\signature{Jonathan}
\address{Bachotek\\Poland\\(temporarily)}
\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{}
\begin{recipient}
Gábor Székely\\
Somewhere\\
in\\
Hungary
\end{recipient}
\opening{Dear Gábor,}
Sounds like you could use a float to do this, with the \texttt{b}
placement code
so that it is positioned at the bottom of the page.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's already a package that does
something like this.
This is just a quick-and-dirty sample to show the basic idea.
\closing{Hope this helps,}
\cc{\XeTeX\ mailing list}
\vfill
\end{letter}
\end{document}
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