Directory macros/latex/contrib/makelabels
Letter Class Option makelabels
Copyright (c) Markus Kohm, 2009-2021 Licence: LPPL 1.3c Release: 2021/08/14 v1.0
Requires: KOMA-Script
Summary
The standard letter class letter
has a label feature. You can activate it using \makelabels
. While in Germany window envelopes are common, printing labels is not common and scrlttr2
never supported label printing. At the German KOMA-Script book I've shown how you can print labels simply by printing a letter with special pseudo value settings. Doing so you can use several configuration features. Using makelabels.lco
in opposite does only implement a \makelabels
feature similar to the standard letter classes. Currently there are no configuration features at makelabels.lco
. But you may use package envlab
from CTAN after loading makelabels.lco
to get various configuration features.
Installation
It is recommended to use the package manager of your TeX distribution to install makelabels.lco
. But if this is not possible of if you are a distribution you can either use l3build
and sources from the git repository or a completely manual installation using a basic source file distribution.
Manual installation using l3build
and the git sources
First of all copy or clone the sources of the current release or the developer code from github and use
l3build unpack
to unpack the package. The unpacked files then can be found be in build/unpacked
. You can use
l3build doc
to generate the manual and the example PDFs.
l3build install
to install the package locally. But this will neither install the manual nor nor the example files. Currently there are two example files, generated by l3build
:
makelabels-example.tex
is the source of a very simple example usingscrletter
class andmakelabels.lco
only. The result can be found inmakelabels-example.pdf
makelabels-envlab-example.tex
is the source of an example that shows how to use packageenvlab
in combination withscrletter
class andmakelabels.lco
to have more versability.
### Manual installation using a basic source distribution
A basic source distribution consists of makelabels.dtx
and README.md
only. There may be additional manual and demo files like makelabels.pdf
, makelabels-example.pdf
or makelabels-envlab-example.pdf
.
If you have got such a basic source distribution, i.e., from CTAN, you first have to unpack the files using:
tex makelabels.dtx
Don't use latex
, pdflatex
, lualatex
or xelatex
instead of tex
! The unpacking will produce makelabels.lco
, makelabels-example.tex
and makelabels-envlab-example.tex
.
If your source distribution does not contain the manual makelabels.pdf
and the example files makelabals-example.pdf
and makelabels-envlab-example.pdf
you can generate these (after the unpacking previously explained) using:
pdflatex makelabels-example.tex pdflatex makelabels-example.tex pdflatex makelabels-envlab-example.tex pdflatex makelabale-envlab-example.tex pdflatex makelabels.dtx mkindex makelabels pdflatex makelabels.dtx mkindex makelabels pdflatex makelabels.dtx
To install all the runtime files, make a folder tex/latex/makelabels
in you private or local TEXMF tree if this folder does not yet exists. Then copy makelabels.lco
to this folder.
To install the manual and the demo files, make a folder doc/latex/makelabels
in the same TEXMF tree you've uses for the installation of makelabels.lco
, if the folder does not yet exists. Then copy the demo files makelabels-example.tex
, makelabels-envlab-example.tex
, makelabels-example.pdf
, makelabels-envlab-example.pdf
and the manual makelabels.pdf
to this folder.
MiKTeX users have to additionally update the Filename Database. See the manual of the MiKTeX console for more information. TeX Live user usually do not need to run texhash
, because the private and the personal TEXMF tree is usually searched completely.
Usage
Like all other LCO files you can load makelabels.lco
using \LoadLetterOption{makelabels}
. For scrlttr2
loading via optional argument of \documentclass
also works, but is not recommended any longer.
After loading the LCO file, you can add \makelabels
into your document preamble to active the automatic generation of labels at the end of the document while reading the *.aux
-file.
Note: In oposite to other LCO files you must not load mkalelabels.lco
after \begin{document}
!
See the manual for more information.
Download the contents of this package in one zip archive (732.5k).
makelabels – Add a ‘\makelabels’ feature to KOMA-Script letter classes and package
The standard letter class letter has a label feature. You can activate it using \makelabels. While in Germany window envelopes are common, printing labels is not common, and scrlttr2 has never supported label printing.
Using makelabels.lco does implement a \makelabels feature similar to the standard letter classes. Currently there are (almost) no configuration features for makelabels.lco. But you may use the envlab package after loading makelabels.lco to get various configuration features.
Package | makelabels |
Home page | https://github.com/komascript/makelabels |
Bug tracker | https://github.com/komascript/makelabels/issues |
Announcements | https://github.com/komascript/makelabels/releases |
Repository | https://github.com/komascript/makelabels.git |
Version | 1.0 |
Licenses | The LaTeX Project Public License 1.3c |
Copyright | 2009–2021 Markus Kohm |
Maintainer | Markus Kohm |
Contained in | TeX Live as makelabels MiKTeX as makelabels |
Topics | Letter Labels |