General ⇒ Please critique my first template/newbie LaTeX skills

[Winter Light]

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 hoping to not be too embarrassed by what I've done.

I realized when I was done I might have duplicated the functionality of the letter class, but oh well. There are probably still lessons to be learned.

[localghost]

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.

[1] The TeX Catalogue Online, Topic Index - Writing Letters, Faxes, Memos, and Newsletters


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[Winter Light]

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 the direction and criticism. It looks like I was spinning my wheels a bit there.