A couple of lout queries

[G . B . Stott]

Hi there,

These cropped up when trying to modify Jeff's letter scheme to make it do
more. They are both related to the input of the recipient's name and address
in a letter.

1. Suppose I want to print the name and address twice: once as it stands and
once with the first line, the name part, in a bold font. Is it possible to
do this using something like the following in my letter or must I have
separate definitions for @Name and @Address?

@NameAndAddress {
Name part
Address line 1
...
Address line n
}

2. If I have a long letter, I want to put the recipient's name as part of
the heading on second and subsequent sheets. For now, I'll just consider the
second sheet. The page header comes from @EvenTop, a named parameter in
@DocumentLayout. I cannot simply set this to a new value since:
(a) the setting must be done within @Use { @DocumentLayout @EvenTop ... } and
(b) the information about what to put there is not known till after that
point.

The next ploy was to `extend' @DocumentLayout and, within the extension,
redefine @EvenTopHeader, which uses @EvenTop (as is done in the examples in
latest/636 in the lout mail archive). The new @EvenTop can be made to use
the the recipient's name but I suspect, from the experiments I've done, that
the original @EvenTopHeader is being used. Hence the question: which version
of @EvenTopHeader is being used?

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. If there is insufficient
information here, just ask and more will be provided.

Barrie.