[Tex/LaTex] Positioning the address in a Letter

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I need to place the right-side address differently in my .tex file but I can not figure out how to do. What I would like is to have the last line from the right-placed address at the same line as the first line of left-placed address. How is that possible ?

Here is my snippet code :

% !TeX encoding = utf8

\documentclass[a4paper]{letter}
\usepackage[lmargin=20mm, rmargin=20mm]{geometry}

\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{
            Nom\\
            Adresse 1\\
            Adresse 2\\
            Ville\\
            Pays\\
            Code Postal\\
            \vspace{0.5cm}
            Date}

\address{
            Nom\\
            Adresse 1\\
            Adresse 2\\
            Ville\\
            Pays\\
            Code Postal\\}

\date{}

\opening{Opening}

\closing{\mbox{}}

\end{letter}
\end{document}

When I compile that, I have two different address blocks (one on the left, and one on the right), but I would like to pull down the right one by playing with its position.

Any ideas how can I do that ?

Thank you.

Best Answer

There is no parameter for changing that vertical space, so the only way is to redefine the \opening command; the place to act upon is marked by <-----.

\documentclass[a4paper]{letter}
\usepackage[lmargin=20mm, rmargin=20mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\opening}[1]{\ifx\@empty\fromaddress
  \thispagestyle{firstpage}%
    {\raggedleft\@date\par}%
  \else  % home address
    \thispagestyle{empty}%
    {\raggedleft\begin{tabular}{l@{}}\ignorespaces
      \fromaddress \\*[2\parskip]%
      \@date \end{tabular}\par}%
  \fi
  \vspace{-5\parskip}% <------- was 2\parskip
  {\raggedright \toname \\ \toaddress \par}%
  \vspace{2\parskip}%
  #1\par\nobreak}
\makeatother

% the following definitions are just for showing the spaces
\protected\def\rightrule{\leavevmode\rlap{\vrule width \textwidth height 0.1pt depth 0.1pt}}
\protected\def\leftrule{\leavevmode\llap{\vrule width \textwidth height 0.1pt depth 0.1pt}}

\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{
            \rightrule Nom\\
            Adresse 1\\
            Adresse 2\\
            Ville\\
            Pays\\
            Code Postal\\
            \vspace{0.5cm}
            Date}

\address{
            Nom\\
            Adresse 1\\
            Adresse 2\\
            Ville\\
            Pays\\
            \leftrule Code Postal\\}

\date{}

\opening{Opening}

\lipsum

\closing{\mbox{}}

\end{letter}
\end{document}

The two commands \rightrule and \leftrule are just for showing the relative positions and aren't necessary for a normal job.

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You may try scrlettr2 or lettre.

Code

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{calc} % for \widthof, can be done without, too (see parbox)
\begin{document}
\hfill

\begin{minipage}{\widthof{Some company that has a long name}}
Office 123 \\
Some building \\
Some company that has a long name \\
Some city, some zip 12345 \\
Some country
\end{minipage}

\hfill
\begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}}
Office 123 \\
Some building \\
Some company that has a long name\\
Some city, some zip 12345 \\
Some country
\end{tabular}

\hfill
\sbox0{Some company that has a long name}% without calc
\parbox{\wd0}{% similar to minipage/not pictured
Office 123 \\
Some building \\
Some company that has a long name\\
Some city, some zip 12345 \\
Some country
}
\end{document}

Output

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Update

The \hrulefill should be substituted with \hfill. It's only there to show the baseline.

Code

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{calc}
% Text layout
\topmargin -2.0cm
\oddsidemargin 0.2 cm
\evensidemargin 0.4cm
\textwidth 15.5cm
\textheight 25cm
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\includegraphics[width=3.5cm]{Olympics.jpg}
\hrulefill
\begin{tabular}[b]{@{}l@{}}
Office 123 \\
Some building \\
Some company that has a long name\\
Some city, some zip 12345 \\
Some country
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Output

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[Tex/LaTex] How to make scrlttr2 look like letter

Is there anyway I can make it look like the letterstyle? I am just going through this to add a subject line, so if there's a simpler way it would be equally good.

It sounds like what you really want is to be able to add a subject line to the standard letter class, and that you really do not want to use scrlttr2. If that is the case you can just modify the letter class \opening macro. I use the etoolbox \patchcmd, but I am sure there are other ways. The key part is

\makeatletter
  \newcommand{\subject}[1]{\def\@subject{#1}}
  \patchcmd{\opening}{#1\par\nobreak}{\ifundef{\@subject}{}{\textbf{\@subject}\par\vspace{2\parskip}}#1\par\nobreak}{}{}
\makeatother

You would then specify the subject with \subject, just like you specify \name. A full MWE is

\documentclass{letter}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\subject}[1]{\def\@subject{#1}}
\patchcmd{\opening}{#1\par\nobreak}{\ifundef{\@subject}{}{\@subject\par\vspace{2\parskip}}#1\par\nobreak}{}{}
\makeatother

\name{My name}
\signature{My signature}
\address{My road\\My city}
\location{My location}
\telephone{my telephone}

\subject{My subject}

\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{To name\\To road\\To city}
  \opening{Dear \toname}
  Hello World
\end{letter}
\end{document}

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