LaTex class for UC letters - shawfdong/hyades GitHub Wiki

Prof. Ethan Miller at UCSC has made a LaTex class file for writing letters with University of California letterhead. I've lightly modified his work, to add the options for UCO/Lick Observatory and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UCSC. I've uploaded my version to http://pleiades.ucsc.edu/latex/, where you'll find:

• ucletter.cls: the LaTex class file
• ucsealnew.pdf: the UC seal PDF file
• sample.tex: a sample letter
• DougLin.pdf: Prof. Doug Lin's signature image

Use pdflatex to create PDF output from the LaTex letter, e.g.,

pdflatex sample.tex

You can check out the resulted PDF file sample.pdf at http://pleiades.ucsc.edu/latex/ too.

Here are the first few lines of sample.tex:

\documentclass[ucsc,lick,shortfrom,12pt]{ucletter}
% uncomment either of the following 2 lines to indent the signature
\def\fromaddress{\null}
% \address{\phantom{i}}

\signature{\parbox[b][1in][b]{4in}{
\includegraphics[width=2in]{DougLin.pdf}\\
Doug Lin\\
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
}}

A few quick notes:

1. The sample letter uses the lick option for \documentclass, which is for people affiliated with UCO/Lick. If you are affiliated with the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UCSC, use the aa option:

\documentclass[ucsc,aa,shortfrom,12pt]{ucletter}

2. The sample letter uses Prof. Lin's signature image. When you use your own, it might be necessary to fiddle with the height argument of \parbox (1in in sample.txt)^[1].

3. If you don't have a signature image or you rather sign the letter yourself, you can use a signature like the following:

\signature{\parbox{4in}{
Doug Lin\\
Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics
}}

1. ^ parbox