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Sometimes the mundane things are the most painful. However, it doesn't have to be that way because of evolved, user-friendly templates. Thankfully, LaTeX allows for very quick letter writing, with little hassle.






[edit] The letter class




To write letters use the standard document class letter.




You can write multiple letters in one LaTeX file - start each one with \begin{letter}{recipient} and end with \end{letter}. You can leave recipient blank. Each letter consists of four parts:





1. opening (like \opening{Dear Sir or Madam,} or \opening{Dear Kate,})
2. main body - written as usual in LaTeX
3. closing (like \closing{Yours sincerely,})
   

   
   

   LaTeX will leave some space after closing for your hand-written signature; then it will put your name and surname, if you have declared them.

   
   
   

4. additional elements: post scriptum (\ps{}), carbon copy (\cc{}) and list of enclosures (\encl{})





If you want your name, address and telephone number to appear in the letter, you have to declare them first (with \signature{}, \address{} and \telephone{}).

1. Post up a cheat sheet

Create your own cheat sheet with ten key bindings you'd like to learn. No more than 10. Don't burden yourself with a gigantic list you'll have to search through. You won't be able to find them quickly enough, and you'll stop referring to the sheet.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout

Click on the KeyboardLayout entry to give it the focus. Make sure it has the focus and not one of its children. Then from the Edit menu, choose New Binary Value, and name it Scancode Map. It should show as type REG_BINARY.

Then select the new Scancode Map entry you just created, and from the Edit menu (whose contents should have changed), choose Modify Binary Data. In the dialog box called Edit Binary Value, enter the following data:

 0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
 0008: 03 00 00 00 3A 00 1D 00
 0010: 1D 00 3A 00 00 00 00 00

Select OK to close the dialog, then exit the Registry Editor. The caps and ctrl keys should be swapped as soon as you log out and back in again. It may require a reboot.