in North America it's letter-of-reference season for professors, and I am writing a lot of them. These are some of the only documents I still compose in libreoffice, because I need to use a letterhead that contains both image and text, and I need to insert a .png of my signature near the bottom. I would much prefer to compose these letter in org and them export. In order to so I would need to preserve the letterhead and the signature somehow. Both these sections in my current letters occur within the
<office:text>
</office:text>
section which I guess is always replaced by org on export. My immediate question: Is there a way to preserve some of these contents? More generally: do people have template files they are very satisfied with? I would be happy to go straight to pdf via latex, if it were easy to accomplish the same effect that way I don't use latex at all myself so it might not be so easy for me :-/.
For completeness, here is the xml for my letterhead (sorry it's rather long):
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<office:body><office:text><text:sequence-decls><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="." text:name="Illustration"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="." text:name="Table"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="." text:name="Text"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Drawing"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Figure"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="." text:name="Equation"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="." text:name="Listing"/></text:sequence-decls><text:h text:style-name="P6" text:outline-level="1"/><table:table table:name="Table1" table:style-name="Table1"><table:table-column table:style-name="Table1.A"/><table:table-column table:style-name="Table1.B"/><table:table-row table:style-name="Table1.1"><table:table-cell table:style-name="Table1.A1" office:value-type="string"><text:p text:style-name="P5"><draw:frame draw:style-name="fr1" draw:name="Image1" text:anchor-type="as-char" svg:width="1.857cm" svg:height="3.025cm" draw:z-index="0"><draw:image xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad" loext:mime-type="image/x-wmf"/><draw:image xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad" loext:mime-type="image/png"/></draw:frame></text:p></table:table-cell><table:table-cell table:style-name="Table1.A1" office:value-type="string"><text:p text:style-name="P5"><text:span text:style-name="T1">University of Toronto<text:tab/><text:tab/></text:span><text:span text:style-name="T2"> <text:s text:c="2"/></text:span></text:p><text:p text:style-name="P5"><text:span text:style-name="T3">dept. of history</text:span><text:span text:style-name="T4"> <text:s/></text:span></text:p><text:p text:style-name="P4"><text:span text:style-name="T5">Rm-2074 sidney smith, 100 st. george street, TORONTO, ONTARIO <text:s/>M5S 3G3 <text:s/>CANADA</text:span></text:p><text:p text:style-name="P4"><text:span text:style-name="T5">Telephone 416-978-3363 <text:s text:c="3"/>Fax 416-978-4810 <text:s/></text:span></text:p></table:table-cell></table:table-row></table:table><text:h text:style-name="P7" text:outline-level="1"><text:bookmark text:name="org54567cc"/>
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and here is my signature:
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<office:body><office:text><text:sequence-decls><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="." text:name="Illustration"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="." text:name="Table"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="." text:name="Text"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Drawing"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Figure"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="." text:name="Equation"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="2" text:separation-character="." text:name="Listing"/></text:sequence-decls><text:h text:style-name="P6" text:outline-level="1"/><table:table table:name="Table1" table:style-name="Table1"><table:table-column table:style-name="Table1.A"/><table:table-column table:style-name="Table1.B"/><table:table-row table:style-name="Table1.1"><table:table-cell table:style-name="Table1.A1" office:value-type="string"><text:p text:style-name="P5"><draw:frame draw:style-name="fr1" draw:name="Image1" text:anchor-type="as-char" svg:width="1.857cm" svg:height="3.025cm" draw:z-index="0"><draw:image xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad" loext:mime-type="image/x-wmf"/><draw:image xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:actuate="onLoad" loext:mime-type="image/png"/></draw:frame></text:p></table:table-cell><table:table-cell table:style-name="Table1.A1" office:value-type="string"><text:p text:style-name="P5"><text:span text:style-name="T1">University of Toronto<text:tab/><text:tab/></text:span><text:span text:style-name="T2"> <text:s text:c="2"/></text:span></text:p><text:p text:style-name="P5"><text:span text:style-name="T3">dept. of history</text:span><text:span text:style-name="T4"> <text:s/></text:span></text:p><text:p text:style-name="P4"><text:span text:style-name="T5">Rm-2074 sidney smith, 100 st. george street, TORONTO, ONTARIO <text:s/>M5S 3G3 <text:s/>CANADA</text:span></text:p><text:p text:style-name="P4"><text:span text:style-name="T5">Telephone 416-978-3363 <text:s text:c="3"/>Fax 416-978-4810 <text:s/></text:span></text:p></table:table-cell></table:table-row></table:table><text:h text:style-name="P7" text:outline-level="1"><text:bookmark text:name="org54567cc"/>
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As you can see, one occurs at the beginning of the <office:text> element, and the other at the end. Can I somehow insert them on export?
Thanks as always for your help.