X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["837" "Sun" "4" "October" "92" "19:44:11" "+0100" "Dominik Wujastyk" "ucgadkw@UCL.AC.UK" nil "23" "Re: Letter style" "^Date:" nil nil "10"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (serv01) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA08779; Sun, 4 Oct 92 19:46:50 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.0/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA01146; Sun, 4 Oct 92 19:46:11 +0100 Message-Id: <9210041846.AA01146@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 5563; Sun, 04 Oct 92 19:47:00 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 5548; Sun, 04 Oct 92 19:46:56 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 5543; Sun, 04 Oct 92 19:46:53 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Sun, 4 Oct 92 19:44:11 +0100 From: Dominik Wujastyk Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of Subject: Re: Letter style Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 837 On Oct 3, 11:34pm, David R. wrote: > Perhaps LaTeX should concentrate on thing it is likely to be good at: > journal articles, books, conference proceedings, etc., rather than "office > documents". > > I wouldn't mind if LaTeX 3 had no equivalent of letter.sty. I agree. Sometimes less is more, and I have never seen the point of using LaTeX for letters. It is refreshing to hear of something being struck out, rather than another feature to be added! Again, subject to backward compatibility -- which could just be a sty file -- I think the letter support should either go, or be significantly enhanced, except I can't think of anything that I would think worth adding. The only reason for using LaTeX for letters is to get the CM font, which isn't an overwhelming reason for a full letter support module, in my view. Dominik