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+ Envelopes and Labels
+ LaTeX2e package
+ Version 1.2
+
+ Boris Veytsman
+ boris@plmsc.psu.edu
+ home page http://planck.psu.edu/~boris
+
+ July 16, 1997
+
+
+This package provides a comprehensive and easily customizable
+system for creating mailing envelopes and labels in LaTeXe. It
+includes printing of barcodes and address formatting according to
+the US Postal Service rules.
+
+The standard makelabels command in the LaTeXe letter.cls
+document class typesets labels on Avery 5352 sheets. A typical user
+may want more. EnvLab redefines makelabels in (hopefully})
+a more useful and customizable way. EnvLab:
+ - Typesets mailing labels or envelopes on a number of pre-defined
+label sheets or envelopes.
+ - Can be easily configured for any customized label or envelope
+sizes. The rule of thumb is: if you printer can print this, EnvLab can
+typeset this.
+ - Can optionally print barcodes and/or process addresses according to
+the United States Postal Service Rules.
+ - Allows you to include your logo in the return address.
+ - Painlessly interacts with mail merging packages such as mailing.
+ - Does not require special fonts for address and barcodes printing.
+The typesetting is implemented with standard fonts and LaTeX \rule
+commands.
+
+This package was written with US mailing standards in mind. This is
+not a reflection of the author's americanocentrism: US standard was
+only one I had official documents about. If you want to add your
+national standards, please contact me with pointers to the
+corresponding documents.
+
+The distribution of this package includes the following files:
+ - envlab.dtx---fully documented program
+ - envlab.ins---DocStrip instruction module
+ - elold.ins---DocStrip instruction module for older versions of
+DocStrip
+ - elguide.tex---User Guide
+ - readme.version_number---Read Me file
+
+To install the package
+ - LaTeX the file envlab.ins. It will produce three files: envlab.drv,
+envlab.sty and envlab.cfg. NOTE: If your version of DocStrip is older
+than 2.3, use elold.ins instead of envlab.ins.
+ - (Optional) Look at the file envlab.cfg and change it accordingly to
+your taste.
+ - Move the files envlab.sty and envlab.cfg to the LaTeX search
+path. NOTE: users of kpathsea based TeX (like teTeX) should also issue
+texhash to update the search database.
+ - Produce the documentation by LaTeX ing the files elguide.tex and
+(optional) envlab.drv.
+ - Enjoy!
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+What's new in version 1.2
+
+ - Bug fixes. The package is now compatible with amsmath.
+ - New media type: big labels. They are typeset like labels, but carry
+both shipping and return addresses.
+ - New commands to control the automatic generation of mailing labels.
+ - New commands to change the media type for mailing labels in the
+middle of the document.
+ - New PostScript code for selecting the paper trays (thanks to EnvLab
+users).
+ - Enhancements to the letter environment for typesetting the subject
+information.
+ - Documentation update.
+
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+What's new in version 1.1
+
+ - Bug fixes, including correcting the nasty typos in default options &
+elold.ins.
+ - New options controlling the printing of return addresses.
+ - \AtBeginLabels now behaves like \AtBeginDocument and \AtBeginDvi: the
+changes are cumulative.
+ - New hook \AtBeginLabelPage.
+ - New command and options controlling switching the printer to manual feed
+mode while printing envelopes and labels (thanks to William Slough, Eastern
+Illinois University).
+ - New command \FirstLabels controlling offsets for the labels.