If you’re like me and want to do all your writing from within Org-mode, one problem you need to solve is how to write letters—especially professional letters. I use a LaTeX template and write the letter in LaTeX but mostly it’s just text so it’s pretty easy. Still, it would be nice to move all that to Org so that I could just use, say, a Yasnippet to include the LaTeX boiler plate and then write in the comfortable Org environment.
Ravi Sagar has a short video on how he’s solved this problem. One of the problems he needed to solve was how to produce a letterhead. That turns out to be pretty easy once you have the letterhead graphic. He has all his LaTeX boilerplate in a separate file and just includes it in the individual letters. It works well and is pretty easy.
If you’d like to move even your formal letters to Org-mode, take a look at Sagar’s video to see how to set it up. It’s worth doing this if only to free yourself from the tyranny of Word and its ugly siblings. As this week’s Red Meat Friday hinted, you’d do well to avoid hitching yourself to the Microsoft wagon.