Document Classes ⇒ Memo class in LaTeX

[Cham]

I'm having a major compilation problem with this simple memo MWE (emergency stop). I suspect that this class isn't in my version of LaTeX (TeXLive 2015) :

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{texMemo}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx,blindtext}
\memoto{Mr. Unknown}
\memofrom{Tom}
\memosubject{Some fancy subject}
\memodate{\today}
\logo{\includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{example-grid-100x100pt}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\blindtext
\end{document}
 
 
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Is this code actually compiling for you ? Is there any other memo style classes available?

[Johannes_B]

The class is not on CTAN and hence not distributed with TeX Live.

All i can say is https://ctan.org/topic/memorandum

Concerning Tom's blog post: It is more than five years old and following the link gives me: Access denied.

[Cham]

Ok, thanks Johannes.

While it's easy to adapt any default class to do a simple note or memo, it would be cool to have such a special class for short but great looking memos with style.

[Cham]

Actually, it's not so easy to replicate the syle of the memos on this web page :

https://texblog.org/2012/03/07/writing-a-memo-in-latex/

Here's a MWE trying to reproduce that memo style. What would be the best way to make the proper titles, with logo in the upper-right ?

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\RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag}
\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[total={6.5in,10in},left=1in,top=0.5in,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\raggedbottom
\usepackage{parskip} % Adds spacing between paragraphs
\setlength{\parindent}{15pt} % Indent paragraphs
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\title{\Large\textsc{Memorendum}}
\maketitle
To:  % \memoto{Mr. Unknown}
From: % \memofrom{Tom}
Subject: % \memosubject{Some fancy subject}
Date: % \memodate{\today}
Logo:  % \logo{\includegraphics[width=0.3\textwidth]{example-grid-100x100pt}}
\hrule
\lipsum[1-4]
\end{document}
 
 
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[Cham]

I've created this memo style code, but I don't think that the vertical spacings are right. Need suggestions on this :

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\RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag}
\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[total={6.5in,10in},left=1in,top=0.5in,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\raggedbottom % Is that really usefull ?
\usepackage{parskip} % Adds spacing between paragraphs
\setlength{\parindent}{15pt} % Indent paragraphs
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\noindent\includegraphics[height=0.5in]{example-grid-100x100pt} % Upper-left corner logo
\vfill % ?
\begin{center}
    \Large\textsc{Memorendum}
\end{center}
\vfill % ?
\begin{flushleft}
    \textbf{\textsf{To :}}  Mr. Unknown \par
    \textbf{\textsf{From :}} Tom \par
    \textbf{\textsf{Subject :}} Some fancy subject \par
    \textbf{\textsf{Date :}} \today
\end{flushleft}
\vfill % Probably not right
\hrule
\vfill % Probably not right
\lipsum[1-4]
\end{document}
 
 
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[Stefan Kottwitz]

\raggedbottom is ok since \flushbottom makes sense only for balancing page heights for twoside documents. But it may be the default here, for article.

Both parskip and \parindent at the same time doesn't make sense to me. That's double emphasizing paragraph breaks. I would remove \parindent or set it to zero. I don't like the indentation anyway, especially at the very beginning.

Stefan

[Cham]

What about the vertical spacings around the rule ? I believe they should stay constant, above and under the rule.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Sure, I did not look this far. The \vfill should be replaced by some fixed \vspace, as you said, such as \vspace{\baselineskip}.

Stefan