From Address Position Definition with scrlttr2

koma-scriptletterspositioningscrlttr2

How do you define the fromaddress position and size using a scrlttr2 template?

For the receiver's address, it can be done as follows

%These commands work
\@setplength{toaddrhpos}{1cm}
\@setplength{toaddrvpos}{1cm}
\@setplength{toaddrheight}{5cm}
\@setplength{toaddrwidth}{10cm}

but if the sender's address is defined as follows,

\setkomavar{fromaddress}{Road \\ Street \\ Town}

Then the following should affect the fromaddress location

%These commands don't work
\@setplength{fromaddrhpos}{1cm}
\@setplength{fromaddrvpos}{1cm}
\@setplength{fromaddrheight}{5cm}
\@setplength{fromaddrwidth}{10cm}

Unfortunately, these commands are not recognised? Must the fromaddress location be defined differently?

Below is a minimal example of the letter

\documentclass[
    pagenumber=false, 
    parskip=half,
    fromalign=right,
    foldmarks=false, 
    addrfield=true, 
    backaddress=off
    ]{scrlttr2}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % For extra glyphs (accents, etc)
\usepackage{stix} % Use the Stix font by default
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\renewcommand*{\raggedsignature}{\raggedright} % Stop the signature from indenting
\makeatletter
  \@setplength{toaddrhpos}{2.5cm}
  \@setplength{toaddrvpos}{0.5cm}
  \@setplength{toaddrheight}{3.5cm}
  \@setplength{toaddrwidth}{10cm} 
\makeatother


\setkomavar{fromname}{Joe Bloggs} % Your name used in the from address

\setkomavar{fromaddress}{Street \\ Town \\ City} % Your address

\setkomavar{signature}{Joe Bloggs} % Your name used in the signature

\date{\today} % Date of the letter

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
\begin{document}

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%   ADDRESSEE
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
\begin{letter}{Joe Blogg's Friend \\ Street \\ Town \\ City} 

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%   LETTER CONTENT
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\opening{Dear Joe Blogg's Friend,}

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\closing{Sincerely,}

\end{letter}
 
\end{document}

Best Answer

The address of the sender is located in a field called "location". The pseudo length definition for location are:

 %These commands do work for location <==================================
\setplength{lochpos}{1cm}
\setplength{locvpos}{1cm}
\setplength{locheight}{5cm}
\setplength{locwidth}{10cm}

With the following compiling TeX code (included option visualize to show the location field and others ...)

\documentclass[%
  pagenumber=false, 
  parskip=half,
  fromalign=locationright, % <==========================================
  foldmarks=false, 
  addrfield=true, 
  backaddress=off,
  visualize, % <========================================= to show fields
]{scrlttr2}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % For extra glyphs (accents, etc)
\usepackage{stix} % Use the Stix font by default
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\renewcommand*{\raggedsignature}{\raggedright} % Stop the signature from indenting

\setplength{toaddrhpos}{2.5cm}
\setplength{toaddrvpos}{0.5cm}
\setplength{toaddrheight}{3.5cm}
\setplength{toaddrwidth}{10cm} 

\setkomavar{fromname}{Joe Bloggs} % Your name used in the from address
\setkomavar{fromaddress}{Street \\ Town \\ City} % Your address
\setkomavar{signature}{Joe Bloggs} % Your name used in the signature
\setkomavar{date}{\today} % Date of the letter <=========================

%These commands do work for location <==================================
\setplength{lochpos}{1cm}
\setplength{locvpos}{1cm}
\setplength{locheight}{5cm}
\setplength{locwidth}{10cm}
\showfields{head,address,location,refline,foot} % <======= for visualize

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
\begin{document}

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%   ADDRESSEE
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
\begin{letter}{Joe Blogg's Friend \\ Street \\ Town \\ City} 

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%   LETTER CONTENT
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\opening{Dear Joe Blogg's Friend,}

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam aliquet 
tellus vel justo porta et semper libero rutrum. Duis vestibulum sagittis 
aliquam. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. 
Phasellus ac velit eu dolor lobortis fringilla. Quisque imperdiet porta 
ante in pretium. Maecenas facilisis varius metus et blandit. Proin 
rhoncus arcu non ante elementum non vehicula sem varius. Morbi feugiat, 
elit eget tristique posuere, urna eros vestibulum nibh, at tempus neque 
justo nec enim.

Curabitur id est enim. Suspendisse potenti. Fusce eleifend sodales tortor, a interdum tortor sollicitudin vel. Morbi vel tellus enim, eget hendrerit ligula. Proin molestie suscipit erat, eget consectetur orci convallis at. Ut vestibulum, odio vitae blandit dignissim, dui magna auctor leo, at molestie augue magna sed nisi. Phasellus ipsum magna, fringilla id tempor id, tristique vitae mauris. Maecenas sed orci vel eros consectetur ultrices.

Mauris enim velit, feugiat at venenatis eu, scelerisque vitae mauris. Nullam accumsan facilisis mauris sagittis iaculis. Mauris condimentum dictum libero. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Nullam consequat malesuada feugiat. Vestibulum tempor commodo turpis id gravida.

\closing{Sincerely,}

\end{letter}
 
\end{document}

you get the following result:

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[Tex/LaTex] Aligning address with body of letter in scrlttr2

Markus Kohm, the author if KOMAscript, has included a nowindow-lco in the samples to his book (see Beispiele aus der 4. Auflage des KOMA-Script-Buches). The sources for the file is:

% nowindow.lco
% Copyright 2008 Markus Kohm
% 
% This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
% The latest version of this license is in
% http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
% and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
% version 2005/12/01 or later.
% 
% This work has the LPPL maintenance status `maintained'.
% 
% The Current Maintainer of this work is Markus Kohm.
% 
% This work consists of this file only.
%-----------------------------------------------------------------------
\ProvidesFile{nowindow.lco}%
  [2003/01/24 v0.1 unsupported letter-class-option]
\@setplength{firstheadwidth}{\textwidth}
\@setplength{toaddrhpos}{\oddsidemargin}
\@addtoplength{toaddrhpos}{1in}
\KOMAoptions{backaddress=false}
\endinput

Copy this source to a text editor and save it as nowindow.lco in your tex search path (your texmf-local), or to the same directory as your letter. Remember to update the tex file database (run texhash or whatever command on your system, for example ‘Refresh FNDB’ from the Settings in MiKTeX.)

A MWE for the use of nowindow.lco:

\documentclass[UKenglish]{scrlttr2}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenx}
\LoadLetterOption{nowindow}

\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{Name of Recipient \\ Address \\ of \\ Recipient}

\opening{Hello}  % eg. Hello

\closing{Kind regards} %eg. Regards

\end{letter}
\end{document}

EDIT: PSH asks why you have to add 1in to the \toaddrhpos. This is explained by Markus Kohn in this reply at Komascript’s home page. An approximate translation from German:

In the end the 1in originate from the history of TeX. TeX does not start in the outer margin of the page, but move one inch to the left and one inch down. Consequently, the \oddsidemargin is one inch less than the margin on the even side pages. To make it easier for the user, the pseudo-lenght is calculated from the real left margin (and from the real top of the page). Therefore, you have to take that one inch into consideration when you are using \oddsidemargin in an pseudo-lenght.

(German natives, feel free to improve the translation.)

[Tex/LaTex] How to remove space between back address and address in scrlttr2

The document class scrlttr2 doesn't use normal length adjusting there contents. Instead it uses pseudolengths. The most important length are described in scrguien or the German version scrguide. Both documentations have a great picture which are showing the pseudolengths. To explain my solution here the picture:

enter image description here

In your case you must change the height toaddrheight because the complete return address and adress are putted in one vertical box with the specific height. The distance is done be \vfil. So to reduce the distance between return address and adress you must reduce the pseudolength toaddrheight. Related to the documentation this is done by:

\makeatletter
\setlength{\@tempskipa}{-2cm}%
\@addtoplength{toaddrheight}{\@tempskipa}
\makeatother

If I add this lines to your example I get the following result:

enter image description here

Here the example:

\documentclass[ngerman]{scrlttr2} 
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
%\usepackage{ngerman,    ae}%veraltet
\usepackage[babel,german=quotes]{csquotes} % Deutsche Gänsefüßchen

\KOMAoptions{backaddress=true} 

\setkomavar{fromname}{<Name back address>}      
\setkomavar{fromaddress}{<street back address>\\ <town back address>}
\makeatletter
\setlength{\@tempskipa}{-2cm}%
\@addtoplength{toaddrheight}{\@tempskipa}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
 \begin{letter}{name\\ street\\ town}       
  \opening{Hello}
  some text
  \end{letter}
\end{document}

Note The packages ngerman and ae are obsolete. Use babel with the specific language ngerman.

The difficult setting of such lengths are basing on the simple statement: Normally a user doesn't need to change any length.

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