Letters in Latex

• CSLI local variants
• What a latex letter file should look like.
• Stanford general letterhead
• Stanford guidelines for addresses
• How to use a date other than todays
• letterhead for Word

CSLI local variants

csli-letter

for CSLI letterhead

suletter

For Stanford letterhead with or without the Stanford logo

suletter-nographics

For Stanford letterhead with no Stanford logo (obsolete, use suletter with the no-logo option [\usepackage[no-logo]{suletter})

ssp

for Symbolic Systems Letterhead

ling

for linguistics department letterhead

philosophy-letter

for philosophy letterhead

What a latex letter file should look like.

latex csli-letter.tex
lpr csli-letter.dvi

\documentclass{letter}

\usepackage{csli-letter}

\signature{Your name}
\address{Your address}
\telephone{Your telephone number}


\begin{document}

\begin{letter}{to address}

\opening{salutation}

....text of letter

\closing{closing}

...postscripts, etc

\end{letter}
\end{document}

Stanford guidelines for addresses

line 1: person's name
line 2: Stanford University
line 3: department, building, and room number
line 4: Stanford, CA 94305-nnnn (mailcode)

How to use a date other than today's

\def\today{January 1, 1993}

If you wish to change the format of the date, for instance to make the date appear as 1 January 1993 and so on, the actual definition is

\def\today{\ifcase\month\or January\or February\or March\or April\or May\or June\or July\or August\or September\or October\or November\or December\fi \space\number\day, \number\year}

\def\today{\number\day\space\ifcase\month\or January\or February\or March\or April\or May\or June\or July\or August\or September\or October\or November\or December\fi \number\year}