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title: "LaTeX Letter Template"
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subtitle: "Simple and clean"
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tags: [latex]
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I'm looking for a job for next year to get out of university for a while.
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That means I've been writing a lot of letters of introduction lately. To
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streamline this, I created a custom LaTeX document class called
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personal\_letter.
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The class looks as follows:
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:::latex
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%
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% personal_letter
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%
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% Created by Thomas Loven on 2010-02-24. Feel free to use.
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%
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\ProvidesClass{personal_letter}
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% Based on article
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\LoadClass[a4paper, oneside]{article}
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\usepackage{ifthen}
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% Define functions for user changeable variables
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\makeatletter
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\newcommand{\adress}[1]{\def \@adress{#1}}
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\newcommand{\telephone}[1]{\def \@telephone{#1}}
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\newcommand{\email}[1]{\def \@email{#1}}
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\newcommand{\name}[1]{\def \@name{#1}}
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\newcommand{\place}[1]{\def \@place{#1}}
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%\newcommand{\date}[1]{\def \@date{#1}}
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\newcommand{\greeting}[1]{\def \@greeting{#1}}
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\newcommand{\closing}[1]{\def \@closing{#1}}
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\newcommand{\url}[1]{\def \@url{#1}}
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\adress{}
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\telephone{}
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\email{}
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\name{}
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\place{}
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\date{}
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\greeting{}
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\closing{}
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\url{}
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\makeatother
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% Include usefull packages
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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
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\usepackage{fullpage}
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\usepackage{fancyhdr}
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\usepackage{setspace}
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\usepackage[swedish]{babel}
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\usepackage{longtable}
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% Make graphics work with pdf or dvi files
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\usepackage{ifpdf}
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\ifpdf
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\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
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\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf, .jpg, .tif}
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\else
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\usepackage{graphicx}
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\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps, .jpg}
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\fi
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% Costruct heading
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\makeatletter
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\fancyfoot[LO, LE]{\@adress}
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\fancyfoot[RO, RE]{ \ifthenelse{\equal{\@telephone}{}}{}{ \@telephone \\ \@email \\ \@url }}
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\fancyfoot[C]{}
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\setlength{\headheight}{0 cm}
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\setlength{\headsep}{0 cm}
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\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
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\addtolength{\textheight}{0 cm}
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\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.5pt}
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\pagestyle{fancy}
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\makeatletter
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%Body of the letter
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\makeatletter
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\newenvironment{body}% {
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\begin{quotation}
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\begin{onehalfspace}
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\setlength{\parskip}{1ex}
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\ifthenelse{\equal{\@place}{}}{}{ \begin{flushright} \@place \\ \@date \end{flushright} }
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\vspace{2ex}
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\bf
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\noindent
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\@greeting
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\rm
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}%
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{
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\vspace{10pt}
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\ifthenelse{\equal{\@closing}{}}{}{ \noindent \@closing \\ \noindent \@name } \end{onehalfspace} \end{quotation}
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}
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\makeatother
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\newcommand{\titel}[1]{ \begin{centering} {\Huge #1} \end{centering} }
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\newcommand{\rubrik}[1]{ \vspace{1.5em}
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{\large \bf #1}
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}
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Plain and simple.
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And a usage example:
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:::latex
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\documentclass{personal_letter}
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\place{Göteborg}
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\adress{Thomas Lovén \\ Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx XX \\ XXX XX Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx}
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\telephone{+XX XX XXX XX XX}
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\email{thomasloven@gmail.com}
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\url{thomasloven.wordpress.com}
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\begin{document}
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\greeting{Salvete!}
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\closing{Di vos incolumes custodiant.}
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\begin{body}
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Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam
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non arcu non massa accumsan tincidunt. Suspendisse non est quis
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massa sollicitudin faucibus. Quisque gravida vulputate nisi pharetra
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ultrices. Fusce tincidunt ante quis lacus adipiscing eget dictum
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justo luctus. Vivamus nec tempus diam. Vivamus rhoncus varius arcu,
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et vulputate purus aliquam eget. Cras eget suscipit lectus. Donec
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nec nulla ac urna ultricies bibendum sed vitae nibh. Suspendisse
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consectetur luctus quam eget vulputate. Pellentesque et nisl et quam
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vestibulum auctor quis et metus. Sed cursus tellus at felis lobortis
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ut tincidunt purus porttitor.
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Donec gravida metus eu dui rutrum nec bibendum libero molestie.
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Aenean et odio massa. Donec pulvinar augue non tellus vulputate nec
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congue justo accumsan. Nam pretium sagittis dictum. Sed semper auctor
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neque in commodo. Mauris dignissim ante ac nibh pretium consequat.
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Donec orci tortor, pharetra non congue vel, ultrices sit amet lacus.
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Suspendisse a lacus nec ante venenatis bibendum vitae id dui. Nam
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semper arcu facilisis nunc euismod volutpat. Donec accumsan velit nec
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ante lacinia pulvinar. Phasellus ut varius enim. Pellentesque vel
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augue odio. Suspendisse sed nisi vel magna euismod semper. Maecenas
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erat neque, tristique id consequat id, mollis eu enim. Phasellus
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laoreet pulvinar ante accumsan posuere. Proin viverra dui id ipsum
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hendrerit non mollis mi rutrum.
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\end{body}
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\end{document}
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