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Template of customized Curriculum Vitae and cover letter in LaTeX with respect to english or/and french conventions.

ArthurBernard/Arthur-CV-LaTeX

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Customizable CV template , arthur-cv , allow you to choose color themes , display or not some personal information (age, address, pictures, etc.) with respect to English and French convention , define some sections on left bar (skills, etc.), and define some sections in the body (education, experience, etc.) of the CV.

Customizable cover letter template , arthur-cover-letter , is classical with the same header than the CV template. The template allow English conventions (address and date at right and recipient information at left) and French conventions (address and date at left, and recipient information at right).

Example preview

English version.

With respect to English conventions (without age, address and picture).

French version

With respect to French conventions (with picture, address and age).

Customized colors

The default theme color of CV and cover letter is different kind of blue, but you can freely custom themes color, see below some non-exhaustive examples:

CV environment style and commands

This template is divided in three parts:

• The header where you can define some personal information;
• The left bar to display some skills or other;
• The body of your CV to display your experiences, educations, etc.

The left bar and body must be each one in a minipage environment with respectively 0.37\textwidth and 0.61\textwidth parameters. You can look one of the following examples: example_cv.tex , Arthur_Bernard_CV_Fr.tex or Arthur_Bernard_CV_En.tex

Set personal information (if you don't want to display one (or several) personal information let the command empty):

Set section in left bar:

Set items in left bar:

Set body section:

Set items in body:

Several pages

Use the following command to add a new page to your CV:

See example in ./example/Two_Pages_CV.tex .

Cover letter environment style and commands

Address and recipient, english convention.

Address, date, and location are set at top right and the recipient is set at left.

French convention

Address, date and location are set at top left and the recipient is set at right.

Requirements

Compile with LuaLaTeX (prefered) or XeLaTex .

LaTeX packages:

• fontawesome;

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Lined Cover Letter

This template is defined by the horizontal lines at the top and bottom of the page and space for a logo at the top of the first page. The letter content displays your address and contact information first, followed by the addressee contact information, a subject and then the letter itself.

Description

This cover letter template features two prominent horizontal rules at the top and bottom of each page with space for a company/institution logo above the top rule on the first page. Below this, the letter first displays your contact information on the right of the page, followed by the addressee's information on the left. A prominent subject line is present for specifying the the role you are applying for and letter content follows. The letter can span multiple pages and the horizontal rules are maintained on subsequent pages.

This template was created by Vel .

Current Version

v3.0 (February 14, 2023)

This template is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Click here to see what this license means for your use of the template.

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Writing a letter in latex.

Letters are still rarely written in Latex, even though its so simple and straight forward. With this post we hope to convince at least some people to write letters using Latex. The advantages are obvious, you get a standard layout (which can be changed if necessary), the output is in PDF-format and last but not least, Latex is fun!

The following is a sample code, which can be used for writing a letter in Latex.

  Example output

For more space before or after paragraphs, openings or closings use \vspace{1cm} .

For a complete list of available commands or if you need to change margins, have a look at the letter style file (letter.sty)

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50 comments.

29. August 2007 at 8:12

Dude whoever u are u are doing a great help here…i was recently initiated into the world of TeX… Never turned to Word again. I have always been wanting to know how to write letters in LaTeX… Thanks for the tip…i really didnt know it was this damn simple…

16. October 2007 at 9:34

Thanks for the tip – one question though: is it possible to somehow include pictures in letters? It seems when I’m trying that the “figure” environment isn’t defined when you use the “letter” documentclass.

19. October 2007 at 9:37

There are a lot of different styles out there to help with writing letters. I’m from the Netherlands and the dutch TUG (TeX User Group) provides a style for dutch letters. It is the only way for me now to write letters. It looks very professional. It also supplies info like a reference number and a “in response to” field.

25. October 2007 at 9:36

You can include figures in letters, but it seems indeed that the floating environment is not working. Try this: 1.

without the floating environment “figure”. It works fine for me, you can center the image, but not add caption and label.

Hope this helps, Tom

20. November 2011 at 8:31

This site has always helped. Ur comment did help dis tym!

Regards Vicky

29. October 2007 at 20:01

You could also try the letter format in KOMA-script bundle; it provides replacement for all the basic document classes, with nice additional formatting options. The letter class is especially powerful, and I guess its full potential could only be realised in business environments, but it has served well for my personal needs, also. KOMA-script classes are present at least in MixTex, TeX-Live and teTeX.

20. April 2008 at 11:14

I tried to use the letter-class but couldn’t get it working. This simple guide whoever solved my problems. I didn’t know it was this simple! Thanks!

10. May 2008 at 8:03

I’m also new to TeX and LaTeX (as well as to Aquamacs) and I’m loving it. I’m two weeks into this and I’m really looking forward to not using Word or even Pages and OpenOffice again. Thanks for the instructions on how to make letters!!!

12. September 2008 at 9:24

Thanks! I needed a quick template for writing a letter in Latex and the one you provided really helped 🙂

16. November 2008 at 12:16

I’m can’t get the telephone number to display using \telephone{2342}. I’ve tried adding the command \pagestyle{firstpage} but that dosen’t work. Any ideas?

Also, I would like the closing text eg “Yours faithfully” flushed left – not centered. How do I do that? Cheers.

6. January 2009 at 22:06

When I define the \telephone{}, it displays in the bottom right corner. If you would like it to be part of your address, just use an additional line in the address command. Now for your second question, I tried to flush it left. You can actually do it without a major effort, by simply using \name{…} instead of \address{…}. The trade-off is that your address is no more located above the date, but below your signature. Up to you to decide what suits you the better.

Cheers, Tom.

19. February 2011 at 12:08

You get both the phone number and the closing flushed left when the letter is formatted for use with a letterhead. You get this when you don’t use the \address command. When you use \address the letter is formatted as a personal letter, without a phone number.

19. March 2009 at 0:21

You can left-align the closing by using \longindentation=0pt before your \begin{document}.

28. March 2016 at 6:25

20. August 2009 at 14:18

Thanks for this blog. VERY USEFUL. I just finished writing my thesis in LaTeX, a 267 page document with lots of figures and tables, but I needed to write a letter and I was totally blocked. I never went back to WORD and I wasn’t about to succumb. Your letter example got me going again with a simple but elegant letter, thanks.

4. January 2010 at 0:56

do bibliographies work in letters? can’t seem to get it working.

Writing a letter in LaTeX « The Daily Information Struggle

5. March 2010 at 13:29

[…] not going to copy any details, this blog post says all that is needed […]

3. May 2010 at 22:02

I am trying include a .jpg picture of my signature between the closing and my name in the standard \documentclass{letter} and cannot get any figure to load in at all. Any ideas? I tried what was described before with \usepackage{graphicx} and then just put in \includegraphics{largesignature.jpg} but it has not worked.

4. May 2010 at 17:53

It would be helpful to see a minimal example of the relevant Latex code. I tried in my code and it worked, no problem. Take a look at my post on how to add your signature as an image to a letter .

Latex letter signature as image « Blog on Latex Matters

4. May 2010 at 17:50

[…] the signature{Your name} declaration (see this sample letter) and just replace the closing{Yours Faithfully,} […]

10. June 2010 at 17:05

Thanks for that. I have found a template for writing cover letters and cvs, here http://www.math.uic.edu/~hurder/math589/vita.html download the .zip and take a look at the letter template .tex.

16. September 2010 at 2:25

To add to Seamus’ left-align signature comment, you can also left align the address and date using: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1809882/latex-letter-from-address-left-aligned

23. July 2011 at 12:00

I am trying to make the first letter capital for encl. used in letter latex as By using \encl{Certificates} output appear as encl. Certificates. Is there any way to display “Encl. Certificates” instead of “encl. Certificates” in letter? Please help me.

25. July 2011 at 4:33

Hi Sarvesh,

You can redefine it using: \renewcommand{\enclname}{Encl} .

8. October 2011 at 19:23

Nice job, hth another user

I’m using auctex got rid of the first three lines in the buffer when starting emacs and your code compiled right away.

11. November 2011 at 0:25

I was busy looking around this page for the *.tex template bundle, or whatever package I need – Until I realized i was already looking at it in your few lines of code!

Awesome! Thanks!!!

21. November 2011 at 3:20

Hi there, I have a letter template for Xetex which supports unicode fairly well here:

https://github.com/kaihendry/letterly

27. March 2012 at 8:51

Hi Tom, Thanks for the post. It is indeed very convenient to use latex for writing letters.

It seems that the letter environment inserts the date by default. How can I tell it not to include the date.

My preamble is bare minimum and it only contains: \documentclass{letter}

27. March 2012 at 8:59

Hey Santosh,

Thanks for your questions. Adding \date{} as the first line within the letter environment will prevent the date from being shown.

27. March 2012 at 9:07

Thanks, It worked.

29. September 2012 at 16:02

Thanks a lot! This is really useful.

12. October 2012 at 22:18

I’m using latex instead of email because I want to be able to refer to my figures within text instead of attaching them and hoping my reader knows which one I’m talking about. i want to keep things informal, so i’d prefer to write a letter, but i’m going to have to use the report class or something in order to have figures. can’t some latex guru just copy and paste some code so that i can have my cake and eat it too?

13. October 2012 at 17:27

Hmmm, not sure I understand what you need exactly. You may find my code samples on figures and standard classes useful. Cheers, Tom.

21. October 2013 at 16:10

Hi, Is there any way (other than inserting artificial spaces in the address) to make the address line up with the closing?

22. October 2013 at 13:24

Hi Larry, I can’t help you with that, sorry. I’d suggest you use an alternative package. See here for some options, e.g. newlfm .

Since the letter class is old and not very popular, I’ll try to write a post on one of the newer packages…

Cheers, Tom

19. November 2014 at 20:59

Someone asked long ago but it has not been answered: How can a citations and a bibliograohy be added to a letter?

25. November 2014 at 7:54

You might find the answer to a similar question on tex.SX useful.

8. March 2015 at 23:12

I have a 403 on the file new.pdf

10. March 2015 at 14:36

Thanks! This should be fixed now.

20. August 2015 at 17:00

How to add subject before the opening?

21. August 2015 at 14:48

A possible solution, although not ideal, is to include the subject in the opening:

Alternatively, you might use the more flexible KOMA script letter class: scrlttr2 .

18. April 2016 at 12:17

How can I control the date of the letter? Today’s date seems to be inserted automatically.

21. April 2016 at 9:40

Hi Reinhard,

Use the date macro in the preamble:

21. April 2016 at 11:50

Thanks Tom.

21. April 2016 at 12:02

While we are on the subject, do you know if there is a way to override \today in document classes other than letter. The trick you suggested seems to work for the letter class only.

26. April 2016 at 13:25

Which class do you use? It works for the standard document classes: article , report , and book . Here’s an example:

30. January 2018 at 10:56

Why is the closing and the signature centre aligned? I’ve never seen that on any letter ever before.

30. January 2018 at 12:50

Hi Russell,

Thanks for your comment. The positioning of signature is done through indentation rather alignment. Not sure what the reason is, perhaps an outdated style. To change it, set \longindentation to zero:

7. March 2019 at 9:20

How does one include a subject line?

19. March 2019 at 12:11

A possible solution is to use one of the standard macros. For example:

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