You know, I'm not sure why I still use TeXStudio. I do my bibs in Notepad++, I do my compiling on the command line a lot of the time, and the only latex features I use are syntax highlighting, compiling, commenting things out, and spellcheck. I bet I can set up emacs to do all of those pretty easily.

Oh wait, emacs always looks terrible and I find it hard to write body text in it....

@FaheemMitha Yes, but it seems both \closing and \cc remains stuck together - possibly another \nobreak with \cc...

...and there's no room to fit both of them at the bottom of the page.

@Werner ok

@FaheemMitha So it really depends on what you want to do...

Is there some reason why closing and cc remain together?

I'm a big proponent of just winging a letter in article.

@Werner I don't care, really. But I'd like more text on the first page.

@Werner Well, I've managed to get scrlttr2 the way I like it. Most of the time it does what I want.

@Werner can one move the lower margin down a bit? But I don't understand - is the first cc stuck to the closing? If so, that seems strange.

And would explain that big gap, I guess.

@FaheemMitha Just before \begin{letter}, add \enlargethispage{3\baselineskip}, which should add only 3 lines on the current (first) page.

I suppose I can sort of see why the CC and the closing are together. Otherwise people would not know the CC exists.

What do you see?

@Werner I tried that. The letter reduced to 1 page, with text running off the end. :-)

One sec. I'll try again.

Yes, the same thing happens.

@FaheemMitha Exactly.

@Werner not sure I see your point.

@FaheemMitha The composition of the text, together with the closing and CC just doesn't work for this specific case.

If you had fewer lines of text, it may look better...

...if you had more text to fill the text, it may look better.

@Werner oh. Can one decouple the CC from the closing? Or would that be bad?

If you didn't have such a gap between the closing top/bottom, it may look better.

If you didn't have a large CC, it may look better.

@FaheemMitha That depends on you.

@Werner ok. How would one do it?

I guess I can move the text down a bit, as an alternative.

I don't know anything about the ethical reasons behind it being decoupled, and/or how many typographers may/not cringe...

You may even consider adding some line-spacing...

@Werner ok

...like \setstretch{1.5} with setspace.

Yes, that is what I meant. Maybe after the to address and before the date?

@Werner where?

@FaheemMitha I'll add something to my answer...

I think a line-spacing stretch looks better than anything else.

@Werner Ok.

I think the long CCs are a big part of the problem. Maybe I should double up the lines.

@JosephWright Question: Why are the degree symbols in \celsius and \degree different? Is that normal?

@FaheemMitha Done. I've used \setstretch{1.25}, and it seems decent enough.

@Werner Ok, thanks.