Conference vaxuum::document_ft

849.0. "Customizing LETTER Doctype" by PRSEA4::BROWN (Barclay Brown, Geneva EHQ SWAS) Tue Aug 25 1987 14:14

We are launching into a project involving mass producing letters for
    use in Europe.  We will have to do some customizing of the LETTER
    doctype.  Here is a start at the list of what we need.  Can someone
    comment on how hard these things would be to do and/or if they are
    already possible somehow?
    
Here are the things we certainly need.  It might be that some of 
these can be done without modification to the doctype.  Others 
may be more difficult.

Needed changes to LETTER doctype:

1.  We need to have more lines in the to_ and from_ address tags. 
    They now allow up to five.  We need maybe 8.

2.  We need to be able to specify the exact location of the 
    return address on the paper, 4 inches from the top and 6.3   
    inches from the left edge of the paper, for example.  Sounds
    crazy, but we need it. 

3.  We will need to have a doctype that puts the return address, 
    the date, and the closing all flush against the left margin.
    (known as "full-blocked" style)

4.  We need to be able to change the size of the top margin and 
    the bottom margin, as well as the left and right margins, to 
    conform to various styles of pre-printed letterhead.

5.  We need a tag for noting enclosures, e.g. 

	Encl:  Product Brochure
               Seminar Registration Card

6.  We need the possibility, if it does not exist, of printing a 
    letter with page one being letterhead and requiring a large top 
    margin, but with the following pages being without letterhead and 
    therefore requiring only normal margins.

This may not be a complete list; we are only in the investigation 
and initial design phases.  Can you give us some ideas as to how 
hard these things are, and how much time they might take to do?

Thanks, 

Barclay