%CSLIS Technical report 92-645-001
%The mailing label problem
%Russell Brown
%12/7/92
%
%Modified from macros written by K. Herron to produce name tags.


%The following is a skeleton for printing mailing labels. To use, set
%the following eight variables. The first two are integers and the
%rest are dimensions.
%
%\nrows = number of rows
%\ncols = number of columns
%\vcorner= vertical distance from top of page to top of first label
%\hcorner = horizontal distance from left edge of page to left edge of label
%\hlabel = horizontal width of label
%\vlabel = vertical height of label
%
%\hfudge = correction to make the horizontal alignment to work out correctly
%\vfudge = correction to make the vertical alignment to work out correctly
%
%These last two lengths may require some experimenting.
%
%To type the labels, use the macro \lb which takes one argument, the
%entire address with lines separated by \\. 
%Example \lb{line1 \\line2\\line3}
%
%Do not leave blank lines between labels.  A blank line in the input
%file will cause the next label to begin on a new row.
%
%If a label has too many lines,
%it will throw off the alignment of subsequent labels.  
%
%In practice, you will want vcorner and hcorner to be larger than the
%coordinates of the corner of the label so that the address
%is not put right at the edge of the label.
%




\documentstyle{article}
\pagestyle{empty}


%User defined lengths. Everything else is computed using these 6
%quantities.  The values below work with Avery Laser printer labels
%#5162 (1.33 in x 4 in, 14 labels/page).

\newcount\nrows\newcount \ncols

\nrows=7		%Number of rows
\ncols=2		%Number of columns.	

\newdimen\vcorner \newdimen\hcorner 
\newdimen\vlabel \newdimen\hlabel

\vcorner =1in		%vertical distance between upper left corner
		 	%of page and upper left corner of first label 

\hcorner =0.5in		%Horizontal distance between page and first
			%label.

\vlabel=1.4in		%Height of label.
\hlabel= 4in		%width of label.

\newdimen \vfudge \newdimen \hfudge

\vfudge = -0.11 in 	%experimentally determined quantity which is
		   	%added to vlabel to obtain physical
		   	%spacing equal to vlabel. It turns out to
		   	%equal the height of a line.
\hfudge = -0.25in


\newdimen \tempp
\tempp = \hcorner 
\advance\tempp by -1.125in
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{\tempp} 		%physical
						%margin =
						%\..sidemargin + 1.125in

\setlength{\evensidemargin}{\oddsidemargin}

\tempp = \hlabel  \advance \tempp by 0.2in
\multiply \tempp by \ncols 
\setlength{\textwidth}{\tempp}

\tempp=\vcorner \advance \tempp by -1in
\setlength{\topmargin}{\tempp}% Physical margin = \topmargin +1.5 in

\tempp = \vlabel \multiply\tempp by \nrows 

\setlength{\textheight}{\tempp}

\setlength{\headheight}{0in}
\setlength{\footheight}{0in}
\setlength{\baselineskip}{0in}
\setlength{\fboxsep}{0in}	%% needed for boxes to come out right
			 	%% hgt
\setlength{\parskip}{0in}
\setlength{\headsep}{0in}
\setlength{\topskip}{0in}  	%% My attempt to get the topmargin correct.

\advance \vlabel by \vfudge
\advance \hlabel by \hfudge

\newcommand{\lb}[1]{
\fill 0.1in
\mbox{		\rule[-\vlabel]{0in}{\vlabel} %distance between labels is
				        %1 in+height of 1 line.
		\begin{minipage}[t]{\hlabel}
			\begin{flushleft}
			{#1}
			\end{flushleft}
		\end{minipage}
	}
}


\begin{document}
\raggedbottom
\raggedright
%Addresses should be typed as shown in the above example.  Do not
%leave blank lines between addresses. This will result in blank
%labels. 


\input{label-file.tex}
%Here is where you put in your list of addresses.

\end{document}