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From: marcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Envelopes in TeX
Summary: A solution from the line-printer era
Keywords: Envelopes, Landscape, Peel-off labels
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.214405.15075@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 90 21:44:05 GMT
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In <1990Oct23.083348.6215@unicorn.wwu.edu> Kris Bruland
(n8541751@unicorn.wwu.edu) asks

> Does anyone know how to print addresses on envelopes using TeX?

The solution was developed long ago, before TeX even existed: You
print on peel-off labels instead of on the envelopes. You can buy
them in many different forms, with or without tractor feed holes, etc.

> The TeXbook says landscape mode can't be done ...

Does it? How things are finally printed on paper depends on the
dvi-driver and the printer you are using. Certainly TeX doesn't care
what the size of the paper is, whether it's 8.5 x 11 in (portrait), or
11 x 8.5 in (landscape), 21 x (21\sqrt{2}) cm, (21\sqrt{2}) x 21 cm,
or whatever.

					   Marcel van der Goot
					   marcel@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu