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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hletter/Testletter2.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hletter/Testletter2.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..efb042b7e06 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hletter/Testletter2.tex @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +\documentclass[10pt,english]{hletter} +%\documentclass[11pt,german,bruni]{hletter} + +\begin{document} + +\signature{Dr.~C. Featherstonehaugh & Dr.~A. Beauchamp \\ CEO & CIO} + +\reference{Impressions of Lausanne} + +\date{Lausanne, le 15 septembre 2008} + +\begin{letter}{Sir F. Treves, Bart.,\\ + \textbf{Vevey.}\\ + Switzerland} + +% if you want the top-right text to be in [..]s use {..} as well: +\opening[\textsc{[draft]}]{Sir,} + +%The value of \verb+\chaptername+ is \chaptername. + +Lausanne, the capital of the Canton of Vaud, is the smaller of the two +cities of the Lake. It stands on a green slope which glides, in +leisurely fashion, from the wood which crowns its summit to the beach +at its foot. The town is far up on this slope, being about a mile and a +quarter above the port of Ouchy. + +Seen from the Lake, it is so discursive a city that no one could +venture to define its outlines. Its houses are scattered in all +directions, among trees and lawns, gardens and green fields. It is as +if a drop of stone- coloured paint, falling from a height, had been +spattered over a green cloth. It seems to be composed entirely of +suburbs. If Chislehurst were given a cathedral and transferred to a +lake-side it might pass muster for Lausanne, since there is nothing to +suggest that this city of Vaud is so serious as it is or that it +possesses 67,000 inhabitants. + +Lausanne when seen from a distance and Lausanne when viewed from within +are two towns which are totally unlike. A more deceptive place does not +exist. From afar Lausanne seems to occupy a hill-side as smooth as a +cushion. There is nothing to suggest that it contains streets, much +less railway stations, tramlines and shops. When, on the other hand, +the place is entered it is found to be as irregular and tumbled a town +as could be imagined, a place built in detachments without a plan, a +labyrinth of streets, of green terraces and gardens, of slums and +many-arched bridges all joined up with a \emph{central square} which is +neither square nor central. To this very disorder the town owes much of +its attraction, for the agreeable medley is due to the fact that +Lausanne is located, not on an even slope, but on three abrupt hills +separated by deep valleys. Were it not that these valleys are crossed +by a series of bridges, life in Lausanne would consist in climbing up +hill and in walking down again. Moreover, Alfred de Bougy, writing in +1846, says that owing to the hills and the villainous paving, Lausanne +was, in his day, practically inaccessible to carriages.\footnote{``Le +Tour du L\'{e}man,'' par A. de Bougy, Paris, 1846.} + +The hills are round and are disposed in a triangle, like the balls of a +pawnbroker's sign. They are the Cit\'{e}, the Bourg and St.~Laurent. On the +Cit\'{e}, or predominant hill, are the castle and the cathedral. This mound +is, and always has been, the high place of the town and the stronghold +of its government. The Bourg was possessed by the nobles, by the +merchants and by the great inns. St.~Laurent was a suburb occupied by a +church and certain defence works. The poorer folk lived in the gutters +between the hills. In one of these flowed the Flon and in the other the +Louve. Their channels met at the Grand Pont ; but, within the actual +compass of the town, both streams have now disappeared from view. + +From ancient prints\footnote{``Itinera Alpina,'' par J. J. Scheuchzeri, +Ludg.~Bat., 1723. Tome ii.} it can be seen that old Lausanne was a very +romantic looking town. Its three hills were crowned with castle and +spire, with turrets and high- soaring roofs; while around it ran a +zigzag wall pierced by gates and surmounted by many towers. The +dwellings that made up the mass of the city were of dark wood with +lofty gables. They huddled in the valleys like a drift of autumn leaves +in a gully. Of the fortifications, no trace remains with the exception +of one tower, the Tour de l'Ale, which stands near the Place du +Chauderon on the St.~Laurent hill. It is a high round tower of the days +of the musketeers, which finds itself now very inappropriately placed +in a modest street of private houses. + +\closingtwo{Yours Faithfully,} + +\vspace{2cm} +\cc{All Smiths in London\\ Mademoiselle S. Curchod} + +\encl{Tourist guide to Switzerland.\\ Plan of Cully.} +\vfill + +\end{letter} + +\end{document} |