Form letters are typically used by direct mail houses, or financial institutions. The layout always contains an address box (which must align correctly with the window in an envelope), and then usually has free text wrapped into the available width.

In the thumbnail above, there is a single frame for the text, an address box and a company logo. If you look carefully, you will also see a very short light rule near the left edge; this is to mark the fold point on the paper. To position the address box, measure carefully from the edge of the envelope to the address window, and note the dimensions. Then use the NewLeaf page design tool to make a frame at approximately the right spot, and set the exact co-ordinates in the Properties Box.

If you name the frames ‘Address’ and ‘Body’ you can produce your finished letter as follows:

nlUse formletter
nlNewFrame 'Address'     © Select the frame
nlPlace ‘address         © Text matrix
nlNewFrame 'Body'        © Skip to body text
nlFlow ‘letter           © Flow the text
nlNewPage                © on to the next!

Note that it is better to use ‘Place’ for the address, as you will want to determine where the line-breaks come, and that you should set the address frame to (‘Overflow’ 1) so that if an address overflows the frame it simply continues out of the bottom of the frame, rather than skipping automatically into the body text area.