Instructions for using the official LIX letterhead

Created and maintained by Fabrice Le Fessant and Catuscia Palamidessi

Last update 15/3/2004

LaTeX users belonging to an INRIA Equipe

LIX letterhead personalized for users belonging to an INRIA Equipe. It contains personal information, the INRIA logo and the project name. Here is an example of how the letter should look like.
  1. Save this file into letterLIX.cls
  2. Save this file into main.tex
  3. Save this file into figs.tar.gz, then gunzip and un-tar it so to obtain the folder figs
  4. These files are for the equipe "Comète". If you are in a different equipe, then you should replace figs/cometelogo.eps with the logo of your equipe, and in letterLIX.cls, change the reference to "figs/cometelogo.eps" accordingly.
  5. Personalize the informations in main.tex (name, telephone number, etc)
  6. Write your letter using main.tex as a template, and process it in the usual way.

Note 1: In case your personal info take too much space and cause the footer look too crowded, you can reduce the font by replacing \scriptsize with \tiny in letterLIX.cls (two times).

Note 2: The above works well with the laser printer felix, but when using color printer iris there is the problem that the last line (LIX address) does not get printed. The reason is that the footer for INRIA equipes is rather big and in iris the page is a little bit shifted downwards, so lines that are too close to the bottom are left out of the printing area. I don't know if it is possible to change the parameters of iris. In any case, one way around it is to shift the page upwards so to compensate. This can be done at the moment of the ps creation, with the command:

dvips -O -0cm,-0.2cm main.dvi -o main.ps

LaTeX users not belonging to an INRIA Equipe

LIX letterhead personalized for users not belonging to an INRIA Equipe. It contains personal information, but no the INRIA logo and no project name. Here is an example of how the letter should look like.
  1. Save this file into letterLIX.cls
  2. Save this file into main.tex
  3. Save this file into figs.tar.gz, then gunzip and un-tar it so to obtain the folder figs
  4. Personalize the informations in main.tex (name, telephone number, etc)
  5. Write your letter using main.tex as a template, and process it in the usual way.

LaTeX users, letterhead not personalized

LIX letterhead not personalized and empty, mainly for the use of the secretary. Here is an example of how the letter should look like.
  1. Save this file into letterLIX.cls
  2. Save this file into main.tex
  3. Save this file into figs.tar.gz, then gunzip and un-tar it so to obtain the folder figs
  4. Write your letter using main.tex as a template, and process it in the usual way.

Open Office, Windows, McIntosh users

Use letterLIX_perso_with_INRIA.sxd, letterLIX_perso_no_INRIA.sxd and letterLIX_generic.sxd as templates and write your text on them using soffice, or word, or similar programs.