Every so often I find myself cracking open LibreOffice to write a mildly-formal letter—perhaps a thank-you note to an author, or a letter to members of Congress—and going “Gosh, I wish I had LaTeX here”. I used to have a good template for this but lost it years ago; I’ve recently spent some time recreating it using KOMA-Script’s scrlttr2 class. KOMA’s docs are excellent, but there’s a lot to configure, and I hope this example might save others some time.

Here is the TeX file. You should be able to build it with pdflatex example.tex; it’ll spit out a PDF file like this one.