document-classeslegal-stylepackages
I recently drafted a non-disclosure agreement in TeX using the document class article. I liked doing this a lot and I intend to continue doing my legal paperwork in TeX.
Do document classes or packages exist specifically for writing U.S. legal documents?
Of course, I can continue to write them as articles, but if tools have already been created to do this, I'd like to take advantage of them.
I think the easiest way, one that doesn't involve playing with environment variables (which can be tricky to get right when you're using graphical programs not launched from the command line) would be to put your document class in ~/texmf/tex/latex/mycls/mycls.cls.
With MiKTeX, you need to register a local additions directory. I have no experience we this, but this page looks like it has all of the information you need to do that.
I don't think there is a predefined class for menus, but you can create you own format using any of the existing document classes; after all, the menu is a unique feature that identifies a restaurant.
Just as an idea (which admits many improvements), in the following example I used the web-O-mints fonts and the background package to create a frame that will be placed in all the pages of the menu. A simple tabular* environment was used to format each food group.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[textwidth=12cm,centering]{geometry}
\usepackage[x11names]{xcolor}
\usepackage{background}
\newcommand*\wb[3]{%
{\fontsize{#1}{#2}\usefont{U}{webo}{xl}{n}#3}}
% The page frame
\SetBgColor{Goldenrod3}
\SetBgAngle{0}
\SetBgScale{1}
\SetBgOpacity{1}
\SetBgContents{%
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node at (0.5\paperwidth,0) {\wb{80}{34}{E}\rule[60pt]{.2\textwidth}{0.4pt}%
\raisebox{55pt}{%
\makebox[.6\textwidth]{\ \fontsize{24}{29}\selectfont\scshape La Abuela }}%
\rule[60pt]{.2\textwidth}{0.4pt}\wb{80}{34}{F}};
\node at (2,-0.5\textheight) {\rule{0.4pt}{.8\textheight}};
\node at (19.5,-0.5\textheight) {\rule{0.4pt}{.8\textheight}};
\node at (0.5\paperwidth,-\textheight) {\wb{80}{34}{G}\rule[-10pt]{\textwidth}{0.4pt}\wb{80}{34}{H}} ;
\end{tikzpicture}%
}
% colorize text
\newcommand*\ColText[1]{\textcolor{Goldenrod3}{#1}}
% a tabular* for each food group
\newenvironment{Group}[1]
{\noindent\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{}p{.8\linewidth}@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r@{}}
{\fontsize{24}{29}\selectfont\ColText{#1}}\\[0.8em]}
{\end{tabular*}}
% to format each entry
\newcommand*\Entry[2]{%
\sffamily#1 & #2}
% to format each subentry
\newcommand*\Expl[1]{%
\hspace*{1em}\footnotesize #1}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\begin{Group}{Entradas}
\Entry{Calamares de campo}{9.00} \\
\Expl{Aros muy finos de cebolla y pimiento verde, a nuestro estilo} \\
\Entry{Berenjenas a la cordobesa}{9.95} \\
\Expl{Finas lonchas de berenjenas rebozadas a la cordobesa acompañadas de salsa de miel} \\
\Entry{Huevos estrellados con chistorra}{10.50} \\
\Entry{Cecina de León}{10.70} \\
\Expl{Lonchas muy finas con aceite virgen extra y pimienta recién molida} \\
\end{Group}
\vfill
\begin{Group}{Ensaladas}
\Entry{Ensalada <<La Abuela>>}{9.20} \\
\Expl{Piña, manzana y pimiento rojo, con pollo recién asado y una sabrosa y ligera mayonesa} \\
\Entry{Ensalada mediterránea}{8.90} \\
\Expl{Lechuga, tomate, cebolla, atún, huevo duro. espárragos y aceitunas} \\
\Entry{Salpicón de pollo}{9.50} \\
\Expl{Pollo en tiras recién asado con manzana sobre lechuga en juliana, zanahoria rallada y rodajas de tomate, aliñado con una sorprendente y suave salsa de mostaza y yogurt} \\
\Entry{Ensalada de cabra}{10.70} \\
\Expl{Queso de cabra templado con mermelada de tomate sobre una variedad de lechugas frescas} \\
\end{Group}
\vfill
\begin{Group}{Carnes}
\Entry{Carpaccio de buey}{13.50} \\
\Expl{Acompañado de lascas de parmesano y rucuta} \\
\Entry{Parrillada ibérica}{16.70} \\
\Expl{Pluma, presa y secreto} \\
\Entry{Patatas con guarnición para acompañar}{3.75} \\
\Expl{Fritas caseras} \\
\Entry{Patatas con guarnición para acompañar}{3.50} \\
\Expl{Patatas paja} \\
\end{Group}
\end{document}
And here's the result:
Best Answer
There is a package for blue book style written by Chrisopher DeCoro:
LawTeX