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From: payne@stsci.EDU (Harry Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: A simple question about letter.sty
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Date: 9 Apr 91 19:46:53 GMT
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From article <3222@unocss.unomaha.edu>, by mariam@unocss.unomaha.edu (mariam):
> 
> In a letter style document, is it possible to  make a special
> letter-head design to be printed on top of page without having
> to modify letter.sty?  

The way I did it, the answer is "sort of."  I created some PostScript
for drawing our letterhead, and some TeX macros that invoke it, and pass
it the text needed for personalized letterheads.  The TeX macros I put
into letterhead.sty.  In general that worked fine, but in the case of
letters I had to redefine some of the macros from letter.sty in
letterhead.sty.  You really want to have the letterhead drawn when you
say \begin{letter}.  You can do this by modifying \opening so that it
draws the letterhead.  I went a little further and modified \address so
that if you have used the \address macro to specify a return address,
then your return address goes into a personalized letterhead.
Otherwise, you get the standard letterhead.

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