ubc letter template

I needed a template for a reference letter. My colleague gave me a hot steaming pile of LaTeX, which I whipped into a cool, carefully arranged, but still quite smelly, swirl of LaTeX. If you also need a UBC letter template, you might find this a useful place to start.

There are better ways to do all this, but frankly, it was taking me too long to figure them out, so I went with this ball of hacks.

How To

Once, you'll need to configure some files and keep your own copies of these:

1. Modify defs.tex to include your own information (Do this once).
2. Create your own signature.pdf to sign the letter automatically (Do this once).
3. Modify address.tex with your institutional address info (Do this once).

Each time you write a letter,

1. Copy and paste this repo as a template
2. Drop in your own defs.tex, signature.pdf, and address.tex.
3. Modify letter.tex. In particular, you should only need to redefine \studentname and \body.
4. Type make.

You'll need latexmk in your path, and a lot of random LaTeX packages.