Document Classes ⇒ Letter Signature on the Right and Postscript

[Fibonacci]

Hello,

I'm trying to use the newlfm class to write letters, but there are a couple of things I haven't been able to do.

First, it's customary in some places to have the signature aligned on the right side, but everything before that (including the closing line) on the left. I have not found a way to achieve that in "newlfm".

Second, I can't find a command to add a postscript, or anything after the signature (equivalent to the \cc, \encl and \ps commands of the original letter class). Instead, everything I write after the newlfm environment appears on the next page.

MWE:

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\documentclass[stdletter]{newlfm}

\greetto{Dear Name}
\closeline{This should be left-aligned}
\namefrom{This should be right-aligned}

\begin{document}
\begin{newlfm}

\end{newlfm}
This should not appear on the next page.
\end{document}

[localghost]

[…] First, it's customary in some places to have the signature aligned on the right side, but everything before that (including the closing line) on the left. I have not found a way to achieve that in "newlfm". […]

There is the class option sigleft. But this aligns the closing line as well as the signature to the left. The output you want to have seems not to be planned in this class. I suggest to write a feature suggestion to the author for more flexibility. Finally you could use another letter class.

[…] Second, I can't find a command to add a postscript, or anything after the signature (equivalent to the \cc, \encl and \ps commands of the original letter class). Instead, everything I write after \end{newlfm} appears on the next page.[…]

The \ps command works inside the newlfm environment. But presumably not as you expect it. Where is this postscript going to appear? This might be another feature suggestion you could write to the author.


Thorsten

[Fibonacci]

I will probably just use a different class. I've just moved from letter, so I'm open to suggestions. Do you recommend any particular class which supports those two features?

The \ps command works inside the newlfm environment. But presumably not as you expect it. Where is this postscript going to appear?

The postscript should appear right after the signature, as it does in a letter document. I see that doesn't work on this class – whatever I write inside \ps appears wherever I put the \ps command.

[localghost]

I will probably just use a different class. I've just moved from letter, so I'm open to suggestions. Do you recommend any particular class which supports those two features? […]

First I thought of scrlttr2 from KOMA-Script. Although it is very flexible, it doesn't support what you want.

[…] The postscript should appear right after the signature, as it does in a letter document. I see that doesn't work on this class – whatever I write inside \ps appears wherever I put the \ps command.

So let's get back to a dirty hack with newlfm. It sets the sigleft option and abuses the \namefrom macro.

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\documentclass[stdletter,sigleft]{newlfm}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\newcommand*{\cls}[1]{\textsf{#1}}
\newcommand*{\cmd}[1]{\texttt{\textbackslash #1}}
\newcommand*{\env}[1]{\texttt{#1}}
\newcommand*{\pkg}[1]{\textsf{#1}}

\greetto{Dear members,}
\closeline{This should be left-aligned}
\namefrom{%
  \makebox[\linewidth][r]{This should be right-aligned}\\[\baselineskip]
  PS: This is a postscript.%
}

\begin{document}
  \begin{newlfm}
    I'm trying to use the \cls{newlfm} class to write letters, but there are a couple of things I haven't been able to do.

    First, it's customary in some places to have the signature aligned on the right side, but everything before that (including the closing line) on the left. I have not found a way to achieve that in \cls{newlfm}.

    Second, I can't find a command to add a postscript, or anything after the signature (equivalent to the \cmd{cc}, \cmd{encl} and \cmd{ps} commands of the original letter class). Instead, everything I write after \env{newlfm} appears on the next page.
  \end{newlfm}
\end{document}

This is intentionally not a minimal example. The new commands for the formatting of commands, environments as well as class and package names are only gadgetry here to format the text of your question in the letter text.