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|Welcome to this tutorial on how to write letters using latex.

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|You can see three windows.

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|These correspond to the three distinct phases in typesetting through latex:

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|creation of '''source file''', compilation to produce the pdf file and viewing it through a '''pdf reader'''.

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|I am using the free pdf reader “Skim” in Mac OSX because it automatically loads the latest pdf file after every compilation.

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|There are pdf browsers in Linux and also in Windows that have this capability.

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|Let us go through the '''source file''' and see what each '''command''' does.

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|The first line says that this belongs to 'letter document' class.

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|'''12 point''' is the text size.

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|The first component of the letter is the ‘from address’. It appears between the braces here.

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|The result of this is seen in the top right hand corner of the output file.

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|Two consecutive slashes start a new line.

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|If I remove the double slashes from here –

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|'''save''', compile using pdflatex –

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|you can see that these two lines get merged in one line.

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|Previously with a double slash we asked latex to split the line.

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|Now these reverse slashes are no longer there, so latex does not know that it has to break the line there.

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|Let me put the slashes back.

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|'''Save''', Compile.

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|It is to be understood that after every change we need to '''save''' before compilation.

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|Let us see what happens when we give an empty address.

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|Let me just come here,

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|mark it,

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|go to the end of the line, delete it, save it, compile it.

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|You can see that the from address has disappeared from here.

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|Note that today’s date appears automatically in American style: month, date and then year.

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|This is obtained through the command '''slash date slash today'''.

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|We can prevent the automatic appearance of the date with an empty list, as we do now.

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|Save.

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|Compile,The date has gone.

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|Suppose that we want to put our own date, let us enter it with date first as follows.

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|9th July 2007, Save, Compile.

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|03:40
|Got the date.

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|This is the date on which this tutorial was created the first time.

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|On compiling it, we see this Indian format appearing in the output file.

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|Let us put the address back.

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|And the document is back to the previous state by recompiling.

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|The '''signature''' command's argument appears at the bottom of the letter.

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|We begin the document and then the letter.

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|The ‘to address’ comes first. It appears in the top left hand corner of the output.

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|I have addressed this to Mr. N. K. Sinha.

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|The command ‘slash opening’ is used to address the recipient.

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|You may have already noticed that all latex commands begin with a reverse slash.

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|The text of the letter comes next.

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|One starts a new paragraph in latex through a blank line as we show now.

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|Let me come here. Right now this sentence starting at ‘we are’ is here.

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|Let’s open. Let's take this to the next line.

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|I have left a blank line. Let me '''save''' this.

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|Compile this.

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|You can see that this has gone to a new paragraph.

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|05:25
|With a new paragraph, the letter has gone to two pages.

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|Let us see if the '''font size''' is reduced to 10, we can bring the letter back to one page.

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|Let me do that now.

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|Save.

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|Compile,You can see that the whole letter has come into one page.

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|Let me put this back to '''12 pt'''.

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|And let me also remove this paragraph bit.

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|And let me compile this.

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|Okay.

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|I now want to explain the itemize environment which is created with a pair of 'begin' and 'end itemize' '''commands'''.

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|Every piece of text that starts with a ‘slash item’ appears in a bulleted form.

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|Can I get numbers in the place of bullets here?

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|You just have to change the "itemize" into "enumerate" as I do now.

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|Let me just change this to "enumerate".

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|'''Save''' it.

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|Of course! It is always a good idea to save as often as possible.

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|Let me compile this again.

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|07:09
|You can see that the bullets have become numbers now.

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|In closing, I have included, ‘Yours sincerely’ which comes here.

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|We have already talked about the signature.

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|Finally, the command 'cc' helps mark this letter to other recipients.

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|I end the letter with ‘end letter’ command and then the document is completed with the ‘end document’ command.

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|Feel free to modify the content and try them out.

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|Until you become confident, change only one thing at a time and make sure by immediate compilation that whatever you have done is correct.

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|Although I talked about the letter writing process in a Mac, the same source file will work in all Latex systems including those in Linux and Windows operating systems.

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|This brings us to the end of this tutorial.

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|Thanks for listening,This is Kannan Moudgalya from CDEEP, IIT Bombay, signing off. Good bye.
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