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There are several classes for writing letters listed in the TeX Catalogue [1]. So you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Your approach is nice, but doesn't reach the simplicity provided by these classes and packages. I myself write my letters with scrlttr2 from the KOMA Script bundle.

Thanks for ...

Recently I had to send a letter and decided to create it in LaTeX. I wrote the letter and then decided to make it a template for future letters. I would appreciate it if somebody could look at what I did and offer some constructive criticism. This board has been really nice and helpful so far so I'm ...

I'm working with Andrew McNabb's resume template that I found here: http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/linux/latexres/mcnabb-res.tex

In the template McNabb specifies the font thusly:
\fontfamily{ppl} \selectfont

From Googling I think "ppl = Palentino" font. How do I find a list of fonts and their ...

As a supplement to Tomek's suggestion, here you can find information about building a minimal working example.

I see your point and apologize for the error.

I'm a writer learning LaTeX to get a job done, rather than someone who is learning LaTeX because it's their job. I am particularly prone to ...

Hi Winter Light,

welcome to the board!
The title page could be too high, depending on your other settings. Check if you get a warning Overfull \vbox . With the default settings of the report class for example it would be sufficient to remove the line 8:
%\vspace*{\baselineskip}
After the height ...

I'm a LaTeX newbie, so please be gentle.

I recently made some changes to my title page and can't seem to suppress the page number.

\pagesyle{empty} works fine but affects the rest of the document.

\thispagestyle{empty} doesn't do a thing, despite working every other time I've needed it.

What ...