电子邮件通信纪事

Question

我想将我所有的旧私人电子邮件通信都收集到一个 LaTeX 文档中。该文档应该成为一种“日记”。（我也想有一天将它装订成书。）

所以我想要创建的内容基本上应该是这样的：

\documentclass{myemailchronicle}

\begin{document}

\begin{conversation}{NameOfConversationalPartner}{EmailAddressOfConversationalPartner}{SubjectOfThisConversation}

\partner{DateAndTime}{%
Dear Max,
what an outstanding party last week, (...)
Yours Kate
}

\me{AnotherDateAndTime}{%
Hello Kate,
oh yeah it was SO GREAT, (...)
See you, Max
}

%Some more "\partner"s and "\me"s

\end{conversation}

%More conversations similar to the one shown above

\end{document}

现在，我没有任何创建文档类或包之类的东西的经验。我只是不知道从哪里开始……

您认为实现我想要的东西的最佳方法是什么？有没有更简单的方法，而不使用自己的文档类？

Answer 1

我认为您这里不需要一个新类；您可以使用其中一个标准类（article例如），并在某些包的帮助下定义您的环境和命令。

以下是使用tcolorbox包为发言者（合作伙伴和您）定义一些框架；环境conversation和\partner命令\me按要求行事：

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a5paper]{geometry}% paper size just for the example
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{lipsum}% just to generate text for the example
\tcbuselibrary{most}

\newcommand\cpartner{}

\newenvironment{conversation}[3]
  {\clearpage%
  \noindent\parbox{\linewidth}{%
    \gdef\cpartner{#1}%
    \centering
    {\Large\textsc{#1}}\par{\large\texttt{#2}\par#3\par}}%
  \par\nobreak
  }
  {\par\bigskip}

\newtcolorbox{partn}[1][]{%
  breakable,
  enhanced,
  colback=white,
  title=\parbox{\linewidth}{\cpartner\par#1},
  coltitle=black,
  colframe=MidnightBlue!60,
  colbacktitle=MidnightBlue!20,
  before=\vskip20pt\noindent
}

\newtcolorbox{mebox}[1]{%
  breakable,
  enhanced,
  colback=white,
  title=Reply on #1,
  coltitle=black,
  colframe=Maroon!50,
  colbacktitle=Maroon!20,
}

\newcommand\partner[2][]{%
  \begin{partn}[#1]#2\end{partn}}

\newcommand\me[2]{%
  \begin{mebox}{#1}#2\end{mebox}}

\begin{document}

\begin{conversation}{Kate Johnson}{[email protected]}{Birthday party}
\partner[28 August 1999]{\lipsum[2]\lipsum[4]}
\me{29 August 1999}{\lipsum[4]}
\partner[31 August 1999]{\lipsum[4]}
\me{2 September 1999}{\lipsum[4]}
\end{conversation}

\begin{conversation}{Liz Taylor}{[email protected]}{Resignation}
\partner[28 August 1999]{Some short message}
\me{29 August 1999}{A reply}
\partner[31 August 1999]{Some short message}
\me{2 September 1999}{A reply}
\end{conversation}

\end{document}

另一个更为冷静的替代方案。在这种方法中，将自动生成所有对话的列表（类似于目录）；每个条目将包含合作伙伴的姓名和对话主题；除黑色以外的颜色被抑制：

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a5paper]{geometry}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage[explicit]{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\tcbuselibrary{most}

\renewcommand\thesection{}
\titleformat{\section}
  {\normalfont\Large\centering}{}{0em}{#1}
\newcommand\sectionbreak{\clearpage}

\newcommand\cpartner{}

\newenvironment{conversation}[3]
  {\gdef\cpartner{#1}%
  \section[\textsc{#1}~(#3)]{\textsc{#1}\\\texttt{#2}\\#3}
  }
  {\par}

\newtcolorbox{partn}[1][]{%
  breakable,
  enhanced,
  colback=white,
  arc=0pt,
  outer arc=0pt,
  title=\parbox{\linewidth}{\cpartner\par#1},
  coltitle=black,
  colframe=black,
  boxrule=0.8pt,
  colbacktitle=white,
  before=\vskip20pt\noindent
}

\newtcolorbox{mebox}[1]{%
  breakable,
  enhanced,
  arc=0pt,
  outer arc=0pt,
  colback=white,
  title=Reply on #1,
  coltitle=black,
  colframe=black,
  boxrule=0.8pt,
  colbacktitle=white,
}

\newcommand\partner[2][]{%
  \begin{partn}[#1]#2\end{partn}}

\newcommand\me[2]{%
  \begin{mebox}{#1}#2\end{mebox}}

\renewcommand\contentsname{Conversations}
\titlecontents{section}[0em]
  {}
  {\contentslabel{0em}}
  {}
  {\titlerule*[1000pc]{.}\contentspage}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\begin{conversation}{Kate Johnson}{[email protected]}{Birthday party}
\partner[28 August 1999]{\lipsum[2]}
\me{29 August 1999}{\lipsum[2-3]}
\partner[31 August 1999]{\lipsum[4]}
\me{2 September 1999}{\lipsum[4]}
\end{conversation}

\begin{conversation}{Liz Taylor}{[email protected]}{Resignation}
\partner[28 August 1999]{Some short message}
\me{29 August 1999}{A reply}
\partner[31 August 1999]{Some short message}
\me{2 September 1999}{A reply}
\end{conversation}

\begin{conversation}{Marcus Rump}{[email protected]}{Interesting offer}
\partner[28 August 1999]{Some short message}
\me{29 August 1999}{A reply}
\partner[31 August 1999]{Some short message}
\me{2 September 1999}{A reply}
\end{conversation}

\end{document}