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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

TeXmacs is not a frontend to LaTeX, you can write letters in TeXmacs without 
need to have a corresponding LaTeX file, indeed especially for this kind of 
material or anything else which should not be shipped to an editor/typesetter 
who explicitly require LaTeX, there is no reason to use LaTeX with TeXmacs. 

You have a "letter" style in TeXmacs, and if you need some complex formatting 
for the header you can use tables and images.

Maybe you should explain a bit more what you try to achieve, so that we can 
help you find a reasonable and efficient solution.

Try to provide robust conversion for all the possible LaTeX classes (even 
just all the possible LaTeX letter classes) while technically possible 
requires a lot of time and effort and it is not one of the priorities of the 
project. But we welcome people which can help improving our conversion tools 
in a maintanable way.

Best 
Massimiliano



> On 31. Aug 2022, at 16:26, address@hidden wrote:
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> Aug 31, 2022, 15:17 by address@hidden:
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>> I'm not sure but I guess not. While common, the letter class is not usual 
>> for academic documents and TeXmacs is mostly used in the academic context. 
>> Anyway make a letter in TeXmacs is not very difficult and probably for you 
>> will be faster just to redo the document in TeXmacs. Note that you can 
>> copy and paste from LaTeX source to the TeXmacs document via "Paste from 
>> -> LaTeX", so you do not have to retype all the content of the document.
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>> HTH,
>> 
>> Max
>> 
> I wonder if texmacs would consider allowing the use of letter class for 
> those who would like
> to do most things in latex and texmacs.  
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