Letter for iA Writer
![The iA Writer editor and a formatted letter side-by-side.](/img/letter/ia-writer-letter-editor-print-aside/ia-writer-letter-editor-print-aside-400.webp)
Install
- Download the template.
- Open the folder named
ia-writer-letter-master
. - Double-click on the bundle named
letter.iatemplate
. The bundle will then be installed inside of iA Writer. Please refer to iA-Writer-Templates for further information.
A sample letter
See below a markdown-formatted letter in the iA Writer editor, with indication for the sender-address, the receiver-address, and the date of writing. The sample text is taken from Purdue Online Writing Lab.
![A markdown-formatted letter in the iA Writer editor, with indication for the sender-address, the receiver-address, and the date of writing.](/img/letter/ia-writer-letter-editor/ia-writer-letter-editor-400.jpeg)
The Letter template will render the text with the iA Writer Quattro typeface. For letters printed on DIN A4 paper – or anything of roughly the same size – the sender, receiver, and the date of writing will be positioned correctly. See below how the above text is formatted by the Letter template.
![A formatted letter.](/img/letter/ia-writer-letter-print/ia-writer-letter-print-400.jpeg)
The editor
Indicate the sender, receiver, and date of writing with the following syntax in the iA Writer editor. Please mind the empty lines before and after each data entry.
@sender
:Lucy Letter
:27 Writing Avenue
:12345 Garden Town
@receiver
:Ernie English
:78 Reading Lane
:34567 Read City
@date
:April 15, 2021
- Instead of the
@sender
keyword,@from
can be used as well. - Instead of the
@receiver
keyword,@recipient
and@to
can be used alternatively.
Content blocks
iA Writer allows to use content blocks. These play nicely together with the @sender
and @receiver
functionality. E.g., if you have a file ernie.md
, with contents:
:Ernie English
:78 Reading Lane
:34567 Read City
and another file lucy.md
, with contents:
:Lucy Letter
:27 Writing Avenue
:12345 Garden Town
your letter can be written in the form:
@sender
/lucy.md
@receiver
/ernie.md
@date
:April 15, 2021
which is shorter, quicker, less error prone, and allows you to maintain a list of more often used addresses 😃.
Use
- In iA Writer, click the play button at the top right of the editor to open the preview pane.
- At the bottom of the preview pane select the template to use. Select Letter.
- The selected template will be used for the printing of the text.
Issues
Please file issues on the GitHub page of Letter.
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