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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label letterclass</title>
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<h3>Letters and the like</h3>
<p/>LaTeX itself provides a <i>letter</i> document class, which is
widely disliked; the present author long since gave up trying with
it. If you nevertheless want to try it, but are irritated by its way
of vertically-shifting a single-page letter, try the following hack:
<pre>
\makeatletter
\let\@texttop\relax
\makeatother
</pre>
in the preamble of your file.
<p/>Doing-it-yourself is a common strategy; Knuth (for use with plain
TeX, in the TeXbook), and Kopka and Daly (in their Guide to
LaTeX) offer worked examples.
<p/>Nevertheless, there <em>are</em> contributed alternatives — in fact
there are an awfully large number of them: the following list, of
necessity, makes but a small selection.
<p/>The largest, most comprehensive, class is <i>newlfm</i>; the <code>lfm</code>
part of the name implies that the class can create letters, faxes and
memoranda. The documentation is voluminous, and the package seems
very flexible.
<p/>Axel Kielhorn’s <i>akletter</i> class is the only other one,
recommended for inclusion in this FAQ, whose documentation is
available in English.
<p/>The <i>dinbrief</i> class, while recommended, is only documented in
German.
<p/>There are letter classes in each of the excellent
<i>KOMA-script</i> (<i>scrlttr2</i>: documentation is available in
English) and <i>ntgclass</i> (<i>brief</i>: documentation in Dutch
only) bundles. While these are probably good (since the bundles
themselves inspire trust) they’ve not been specifically recommended by
any users.
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<dt><tt><i>akletter.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/akletter.zip">macros/latex/contrib/akletter</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/akletter.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/akletter/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>brief.cls</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ntgclass.zip">macros/latex/contrib/ntgclass</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ntgclass.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/ntgclass/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>dinbrief.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dinbrief.zip">macros/latex/contrib/dinbrief</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dinbrief.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/dinbrief/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>newlfm.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newlfm.zip">macros/latex/contrib/newlfm</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newlfm.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/newlfm/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>scrlttr2.cls</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.zip">macros/latex/contrib/koma-script</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/">browse</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=letterclass">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=letterclass</a>
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