Gtex-Letter is a programm that helps you writing letters. It features include: The application can swallow text you pipe into it, being it the address or the text of the letter.
Configuration of standard openings and default closings.
Multiple predefined letter headers can be accessed from within the application.
Support for serial letters are.
Different user levels according to your skills.
Gtex-Letter connects to the gnome-address-book from the gnome-pim package.
The openings can be configured to adopt to the sex of the addressee automatically. (This is very useful for most non-English languages).
The non-interactive mode allows you produce standard-letters in an extremely efficient way.
The application can swallow text you pipe into it, being it the address or the text of the letter.
Figure 1. Beginning of a sample letter
Gtex-Letter depends on the following packages:
Gnome. Version 1.2 and above.
Python. Version 1.5.2 and above.
LaTeX. Any standard Distribution.
Python-Gnome. Version 1.0.53 and above.
ImageMagick. Any Version should do. ImageMagick is installed on most standard Linux systems except Debian ones. This dependency is due to gtk/gdk (that comes with Gnome).