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From: gustav@tharr.UUCP (Paul Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Letter.sty and the new font selection scheme
Message-ID: <1452@tharr.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 90 17:39:13 GMT
Reply-To: gustav@tharr.UUCP (Paul Moore)
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I remember hearing somewhere that "letter.sty" did not work correctly
under the new Mittelbach & Schopf font selection scheme. Unfortunately,
I can neither remember what the problem was, nor how to fix it. I have,
however, managed to get errors which I assume are caused by this.

Specifically, the following document (I know it's not the right way to
use the letter style, but it demonstrates the problem...) fails to work,
with the attached log as a result.

------------------------------ test.tex ------------------------------
\documentstyle{letter} % Currently, LaTeX has oldlfont as the default...
\begin{document}
This is a {\bf test} of ``oldlfont.sty''.
\end{document}

------------------------------ test.log ------------------------------
[...]
LaTeX error.  See LaTeX manual for explanation.
              Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
! Can be used only in preamble.
\@latexerr ...mmediate help.}\errmessage {#1}
                                             
\mathbf ->\set@alpha 
                     \mathbf \@tempc \mv@normal \@tempe \@tempc \mv@bold \@t...
l.3 This is a {\bf
                   test} of ``oldlfont.sty''.
[...]

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Change the "letter" to "article" makes things work fine. So it appears
that \bf (and presumably other such, like \tt...) does not work with
letter.sty.

Could some kind soul post the required changes to letter.sty to make it
work properly (or explain what the problem is, and why it can't be
solved)?

Many thanks,
Gustav.
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