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From: ajcd@cs.edinburgh.ac.uk (Angus Duggan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Letter.sty and the new font selection scheme
Keywords: letter
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Date: 27 Nov 90 10:53:08 GMT
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In article <1452@tharr.UUCP>, gustav@tharr.UUCP (Paul Moore) writes:
> 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.
... 
> 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)?

The problem with letter.sty is that it re-defines \document (called by
\begin{document}). The new font selection scheme also re-defines \document, but
the letter style change overrides this definition. Here is a patch which
should fix the problem:

*** OldTeX/TeX82/tex82/LaTeX/LaTeXmacros/letter.sty	Fri Feb 26 22:57:43 1988
--- TeX3.0/inputs/letter.sty	Wed Aug 15 18:47:05 1990
***************
*** 202,221 ****
  \def\fromlocation{}
  \def\telephone#1{\def\telephonenum{#1}}
  \def\telephonenum{}
  \def\document{\endgroup
!  \@colht\textheight \@colroom\textheight \vsize\textheight
!  \columnwidth\textwidth \@clubpenalty\clubpenalty
!  \if@twocolumn \advance\columnwidth -\columnsep 
!  \divide\columnwidth\tw@ \hsize\columnwidth \@firstcolumntrue 
!  \fi
!  \hsize\columnwidth \linewidth\hsize
!  \begingroup\@floatplacement\@dblfloatplacement\endgroup
!  \if@filesw \immediate\openout\@mainaux=\jobname.aux
!  \immediate\write\@mainaux{\string\startlabels\string\@startlabels}\fi
!  \def\do##1{\let ##1\@notprerr}
!  \@preamblecmds
!  \let\do\noexpand 
!  \@normalsize\everypar{}}
  \def\enddocument{\@checkend{document}\newpage\begingroup 
  \if@filesw \immediate\closeout\@mainaux 
  \makeatletter\input \jobname.aux\clearpage
--- 208,245 ----
  \def\fromlocation{}
  \def\telephone#1{\def\telephonenum{#1}}
  \def\telephonenum{}
+ %\def\document{\endgroup
+ % \@colht\textheight \@colroom\textheight \vsize\textheight
+ % \columnwidth\textwidth \@clubpenalty\clubpenalty
+ % \if@twocolumn \advance\columnwidth -\columnsep 
+ % \divide\columnwidth\tw@ \hsize\columnwidth \@firstcolumntrue 
+ % \fi
+ % \hsize\columnwidth \linewidth\hsize
+ % \begingroup\@floatplacement\@dblfloatplacement\endgroup
+ % \if@filesw \immediate\openout\@mainaux=\jobname.aux
+ % \immediate\write\@mainaux{\string\startlabels\string\@startlabels}\fi
+ % \def\do##1{\let ##1\@notprerr}
+ % \@preamblecmds
+ % \let\do\noexpand 
+ % \@normalsize\everypar{}}
+ 
+ % \document for new font selection scheme. AJCD 15 Aug 90.
  \def\document{\endgroup
!   \@colht\textheight  \@colroom\textheight \vsize\textheight
!    \columnwidth\textwidth \@clubpenalty\clubpenalty
!    \if@twocolumn \advance\columnwidth -\columnsep
!       \divide\columnwidth\tw@ \hsize\columnwidth \@firstcolumntrue
!    \fi
!   \hsize\columnwidth \linewidth\hsize
!   \begingroup\@floatplacement\@dblfloatplacement\endgroup
!   \if@filesw \immediate\openout\@mainaux=\jobname.aux
!     \immediate\write\@mainaux{\string\startlabels\string\@startlabels}\fi
!   \process@table
!   \def\do##1{\let ##1\@notprerr}%
!   \@preamblecmds
!   \let\do\noexpand
!   \@normalsize\everypar{}}
! 
  \def\enddocument{\@checkend{document}\newpage\begingroup 
  \if@filesw \immediate\closeout\@mainaux 
  \makeatletter\input \jobname.aux\clearpage


> 
> Many thanks,
> Gustav.
> -- 
Nae probs,
        Angus.
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