DAMTP TeX Letterheads

We have letterheads information available for:

LaTeX Letterhead

We have adapted the class created by Dr Simon Moore in the Computer Laboratory for use in DAMTP. You can find his original versions and documentation for using the class lablet2001.cls.

We made a few minor changes for use in DAMTP and called the result damtplet, this class is in the standard latex search tree on all the UNIX/Linux/MacOSX machines.

  • altered the name and address to correspond to the CMS site
  • added a \institution to let people alter which name appears under the identifier e.g. \institution{Faculty~of~Mathematics} - defaults to DAMTP
  • add a mark to show where to fold for use with windowed DL envelopes, added a c5fold option to move the mark to a position suitable for use with windowed C5 envelopes and a nofold class-option to disable the mark
  • the University of Cambridge to the right of the crest is now in the document font rather than being part of an included image
  • the postcode can now be overridden, e.g. using \setpostcode{CB3~0WB} for DPMMS/Statslab

Note that altering the address used on the bottom left of the first page is currently not supported. Let us know if you need or want to do that.

A fairly trivial use of the damtplet class would be:

\documentclass[usebwarms,a4paper]{damtplet}
\begin{document}
\fromwhom{yourname}{qualifications}{title}{email}{phone}{fax}
\setdate{\today}
\setsigned{Yours faithfully,}{my signed name}
\begin{letter}
{Professor V.~Important}{Institute of Applied Rambling\\No such
building\\Another address line\\Town~~~Postcode\\Country}

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back.
\end{letter}
\end{document}

See the file /opt/damtp/info/damtpleteg.tex for a slightly longer example or /opt/damtp/info/damtplet.cls for the class file itself - see the comments near the top of each.

TeX Letterhead

To use the official damtp TeX letterhead in documents add the following line to your letter document.

\input camletterhead

To see this working look at the file /opt/damtp/info/examplelet.tex.

The camletterhead now defines a macro \poundsterling which can be used to generate a pound-sign in most cases (the usual TeX trick of using an italic $ {\it\$} doesn't work except in CM fonts and the letterhead uses Sabon). It won't work if you change fonts out of Sabon (e.g. \tt or in mathmode).

Files: class, include and examples files

You may wish to modify a letterhead for your own use, e.g. to alter the default institution or change the address. The files you may be interested in reading/copying are:

  • damtpleteg.tex - example letter using latex class
  • examplelet.tex - example letter using plain tex

You can find these in the system directory /opt/damtp/info/ which is hopefully a little easier to remember than the actual home for most of the files is under /opt/tetex/share/texmf.local/tex/DAMTP/.

Old letterhead

The really old departmental letterhead which centers the address and doesn't use the university crest can be used with:

\input letterhead

Please seek help if you still need (or want) to use that.