cover letter latex class

Creating short stylish cover letters using Org-mode

This stylish cover letter includes a custom large header and footer. The original LaTeX template can be found in https://www.latextemplates.com/template/short-stylish-cover-letter . Unfortunately these header and foorter do not leave much space for text. To squeeze everything into one page, you may want to play with margins. See http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/koma-script/scrguien.pdf .

I use LaTeX much less than I did 10 years ago. Even for scientific articles, I create a draft using the Org-mode and export it to LaTeX when the project is mature. I also write a simple letter using the Org-mode, and export it to a PDF file.

KOMA-Script letter exporter

See the minimal configuration of koma-letter-exporter in https://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/koma-letter-export.html . The below loads a multilingual support package depeding on TeX engines.

The KOMA-Script exporter can be enabled by putting the below in a emacs config file. The option hidelinks in hyperref is used to hide a ugly bluebox enclosing a link.

Cover letter

Placement of elements is defined in letter class option (LCO) file. The Short Stylish Cover Letter LCO ( SSCL LCO ) is customized for large header and footer based on UScommercial9 LCO, and the file should be placed in the search path of LaTeX. Now, I can open Pink letter and press C-c C-e k o to the pdf export. Pink Letter are fan-given names for a letter purportedly written by Ramsay Bolton in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire .

A signature image can be placed right after closing. With no signature image, the line with #+LATEX_HEADER_EXTRA: \setplength{sigbeforevskip}{0cm} should be commented to have proper spacing between closing and signature.

Another nice CLO file is found the R package komaletter . This package lets us export a R Markdown letter to a PDF file. After install this package, a path of the CLO file can be located using the below R code. I need to replace SSCL in #+LATEX_HEADER: \LoadLetterOption{SSCL} with the path found without the extension (.lco).

Now with this LCO, the letter should be exported with the personal information in a big header with no footer.

Jonghyun Yun

Data scientist

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letter – The standard L a T e X2ε letter document class

This is the Standard Letter Document Class for L a T e X version 2e .

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Stefano Cover Letter

This stylish cover letter uses the scrlttr2 class to produce a beautiful and functional cover letter. The addressee information is placed such that it is visible in a windowed envelope. A large header and footer are present to draw the attention of the reader and succintly show your information.

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This stylish cover letter uses the scrlttr2 class to produce a beautiful and functional cover letter. The addressee information is placed such that it is visible in a windowed envelope. A large header and footer are present to draw the attention of the reader and succintly show your information. The body of the letter features an optional date, subject line (to specify the position you are applying for) and fold marks. Most elements of the letter can be optionally disabled or added to, and the code is broken up into blocks with extensive commenting to make this easier.

This cover letter was originally created by kindoblue but has been extensively modified for this website by Vel .

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Sometimes the mundane things are the most painful. However, it doesn't have to be that way because of evolved, user-friendly templates. Thankfully, LaTeX allows for very quick letter writing, with little hassle.

• 1 The letter class
• 2.1 Using the envlab package
• 2.2 Using the geometry package
• 2.3 Printing
• 3 Windowed envelopes
• 4 Reference: letter.cls commands

The letter class [ edit | edit source ]

To write letters use the standard document class letter .

You can write multiple letters in one LaTeX file - start each one with \begin { letter }{ ''recipient'' } and end with \end { letter } . You can leave recipient blank. Each letter consists of four parts.

• Opening (like \opening { Dear Sir or Madam, } or \opening { Dear Kate, } ).
• Main body (written as usual in LaTeX). If you want the same body in all the letters, you may want to consider putting the entire body in a new command like \newcommand { \BODY }{ actual body } and then using \BODY in all the letters.
• Closing (like \closing { Yours sincerely, } ). LaTeX will leave some space after closing for your hand-written signature; then it will put your name and surname, if you have declared them.
• Additional elements: post scripta, carbon copy and list of enclosures.

If you want your name, address and telephone number to appear in the letter, you have to declare them first signature, address and telephone.

The output letter will look like this:

Here is the example's code:

To move the closing and signature parts to the left, insert the following before \begin { document } :

\longindentation =0pt

The amount of space to the left can be adjusted by increasing the 0pt.

Envelopes [ edit | edit source ]

Using the envlab package [ edit | edit source ].

The envlab package provides customization to the \makelabels command, allowing the user to print on any of an assortment of labels or envelope sizes. For example, beginning your LaTeX file the following way produces a document which includes the letter and a business-size (#10) envelope on the following page.

Refer to the envlab user guide for more information about this capable package. Note that the envlab package has issues displaying characters outside the base ASCII character set, see this bug report for more information.

Using the geometry package [ edit | edit source ]

Here is a relatively simple envelope which uses the geometry package which is used because it vastly simplifies the task of rearranging things on the page (and the page itself).

Printing [ edit | edit source ]

The above will certainly take care of the spacing but the actual printing is between you and your printer. One user reports that printing envelopes created with envlab is relatively painless. If you use the geometry package, you may find the following commands useful for printing the envelope.

Alternatively, you can use the latex dvi output driver.

In the first line, dvips command converts the .dvi file produced by latex into a .ps (PostScript) file. In the second line, the PostScript file is sent to the printer.

It is reported that pdflatex creates the right page size but not dvips despite what it says in the geometry manual. It will never work though unless your printer settings are adjusted to the correct page style. These settings depend on the printer filter you are using and in CUPS might be available on the lpr command line.

Windowed envelopes [ edit | edit source ]

An alternative to separately printing addresses on envelopes is to use the letter class from the KOMA package. It supports additional features like folding marks and the correct address placement for windowed envelopes. Using the scrlttr2 document class from the KOMA package the example letter code is:

The output is generated via

Folding the print of the resulting file koma_env.pdf according the folding marks it can be placed into standardized windowed envelopes DIN C6/5, DL, C4, C5 or C6.

In addition to the default, the KOMA-package includes predefined format definitions for different standardized Swiss and Japanese letter formats.

Reference: letter.cls commands [ edit | edit source ]

Sources [ edit | edit source ].

• KOMA-Script - The Guide

• Wikibooks pages with to-do lists

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• Writing your own class

Sometimes the best option to customize a document is to write a new class from scratch. This article explains the main structure and commands needed in a new class.

• 1 Introduction
• 2.1 Identification
• 2.2 Preliminary declarations
• 2.3 Options
• 2.4 More declarations
• 3 Handling errors
• 4 Reference guide
• 5 Further reading

Introduction

The first thing to do before coding a new class is to determine whether you really need a new class or not. It's recommended to search on CTAN (Comprehensive T e X Archive Network) and see if someone already created something similar to the document class you need.

Another important thing to have in mind is the difference between packages and classes . Making the wrong choice can affect the flexibility of the final product.

General structure

The structure of all class files can be roughly described in the next four parts:

• Identification . The file declares itself as a class written with the L a T e X 2 ε syntax.
• Preliminary declarations . Here the external packages and classes needed are imported. Also, in this part of the file the commands and definitions needed by the declared options are coded.
• Options . The class declares and processes the options.
• More declarations . The main body of the class. Almost everything a class does is defined here.

In the next subsections a more detailed description of the structure and a working example, exampleclass.cls , will be presented.

Identification

There are two simple commands that all classes must have:

The command \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e} sets the L a T e X version for the class to work. Additionally, a date can be added within brackets to specify the minimal release date required.

The command ProvidesClass{exampleclass}[...] identifies this class as exampleclass and, inside the brackets, the release date and some additional information is included. The date should be in the form YYYY/MM/DD

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Preliminary declarations

Most of the classes extend and customize existing ones, and also need some external packages to work. Below, some more code is added to the sample class exampleclass.cls .

The commands in this part either initialize some parameters that latter will be used to manage the options, or import external files.

The command \LoadClass[twocolumn]{article} loads the class article with the additional parameter twocolumn . Therefore all the commands in the standard article class will be automatically available in the example class, except that the document will be printed in a two-column format.

\RequirePackage is very similar to the well-known \usepackage , adding optional parameters within brackets will also work. The only difference is that the \usepackage can not be used before \documentclass command. It's strongly recommended to use \RequirePackage when writing new classes or packages.

To allow some flexibility in the classes a few additional options are very useful. The next part in the file exampleclass.cls handles the parameters passed to the document class command. We've also moved \LoadClass to after the options are processed, so that options set in the .tex file can be passed to the base class.

There are four main commands here that handle the options passed to the class.

The command \DeclareOption{}{} handles a given option. It takes two parameters, the first one is the name of the option and the second one is the code to execute if the option is passed.

The command \OptionNotUsed will print a message in the compiler and the logs, the option won't be used. In this case the document is set to two-column and if the user tries to change it to one column that won't work, the option will be ignored.

The command \Declareoption*{} handles every option not explicitly defined. It takes only one parameter, the code to execute when an unknown option is passed. In this case it will run the next command:

\PassOptionsToClass{}{} . Passes the option inside the first pair of braces to the document class set inside the second pair of braces. In the example, all unknown options will be passed to the article document class.

\CurrentOption stores the name of the class option being handled at a determined moment.

The command \ProcessOptions\relax executes the code for each option and must be inserted after all the option-handling commands were typed. There's a starred version of this command that will execute the options in the exact order specified by the calling commands.

In the example, if the options red or green are passed to the document the font used for the headline and the sections will be set to the corresponding colour. The colour called slcolor was defined in the preliminary declarations after importing the xcolor package.

More declarations

In this part most of the commands will appear. In "exampleclass.cls" the dimensions of the page, the font size for the title, the body and the sections are set. Below you can see the full class file.

To understand the rest of the commands see the reference guide and the links in the further reading section .

The last four commands in the example show the four things that all classes must contain:

• The definition of normalsize . Sets the default font size .
• A default value for textwidth
• A default value for textheight
• The specifications for the page numbering .

Below, a document that uses the class exampleclass.cls .

Notice that the first command here is

Handling errors

When it comes to develop new classes it's important to handle possible errors to let know the user that something went wrong. There are four main commands to report errors in the compiler.

• \ClassError{ class-name }{ error-text }{ help-text } . Takes three parameters, each one inside braces: the class name, the error text which is going to be displayed (the compilation process will be paused), and the help text that will be printed if the user press "h" when the compilation pauses because of the error.
• \ClassWarning{ class-name }{ warning-text } . In this case the text is displayed but the compilation process won't stop. It will show the line number where the warning occurred.
• \ClassWarningNoLine{ class-name }{ warning-text } . Works just like the previous command, but it won't show the line where the warning occurred.
• \ClassInfo{ class name }{ info-text } . In this case the information in the second parameter will only be printed in the transcript file, including the line number.

Reference guide

List of commands commonly used in classes and packages

• \newcommand{ name }{ definition } . Defines a new command , the first parameter is the name of the new command, the second parameter is what the command will do.
• \renewcommand{}{} . The same as \newcommand but will overite an existing command.
• \providecommand{}{} . Works just as \newcommand but if the command is already defined this one will be silently ignored.
• \CheckCommand{}{} . The syntax is the same as \newcommand , but instead it will check whether the command exists and has the expected definition, L a T e X will show a warning if the command is not what \CheckCommand expected.
• \setlength{}{} . Sets the length of the element passed as first parameter to the value written as second parameter.
• \mbox{} . Creates a box that contains the elements written inside the braces.
• \fbox{} . The same as \mbox , but a box is actually printed around the contents.

Further reading

For more information see

• Understanding packages and class files
• Writing your own package
• Commands and Environments
• Lengths in LaTeX
• Using colours in LaTeX
• Management in a large project
• L a T e X 2 ε for class and package writers
• Notes on programming in tex
• Minutes in less than hours: Using L a T e X Resources
• The L a T e X Companion. Second edition
• Documentation Home
• Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes

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