[Tex/LaTex] scrlttr2 position of logo relative to address

scrlttr2

I have the following .lco file for the from-address:

\ProvidesFile{absender.lco}[letter-class-option file]

\RequirePackage{marvosym}
\RequirePackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\RequirePackage[ngerman]{babel}
\RequirePackage{color}

\KOMAoptions{
    foldmarks=true,
    fromalign=right,
    fromrule=false,
    footsepline=off,
    fromurl=true,
    fromemail=true,
    fromfax=false,
    fromphone=false,
    fromlogo=true    
}

\setkomavar{fromphone}[\Mobilefone~]{+99\,(9)\,99\,98\,97\,96}
\setkomavar{fromemail}[\Letter~]{musterfrau@example.nothing}
\setkomavar{fromurl}[]{www.example.nothing}
\setkomavar{backaddress}{Erika Musterfrau, Hauptstraße 12, 00000 Hauptstadt, Nimmerland}
\setkomavar{fromaddress}{Erika Musterfrau, Hauptstraße 12, 00000 Hauptstadt, Nimmerland}
\setkomavar{fromfax}[\Faxmachine~]{+49\,22\,112233}
\setkomavar{fromlogo}{\includegraphics[height=3.2cm]{square.png}}

% Optisches:
\setkomafont{fromname}{\bfseries\color{black}\LARGE}
\setkomafont{fromrule}{\color{black}}
\setkomafont{fromaddress}{\small\rmfamily\mdseries\slshape\color{black}}

\setkomafont{addressee}{\small}

\setkomavar{signature}{Erika Musterfrau}
\renewcommand*{\raggedsignature}{\raggedright}

% Definiere vertikalen Abstand vor der Unterschrift
\@setplength{sigbeforevskip}{1.8cm}
\endinput

and this is the .tex file for the letter:

\documentclass[
    absender,
    paper=a4,
    version=last,]{scrlttr2}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\setkomavar{myref}{201807/Q}

\setkomavar{subject}{Question}
\setkomavar{date}{\today}
\setkomavar{place}{Hauptstadt}

\begin{letter}{
    Max Mustermann\\
    Musterstraße 1\\
    12345 Musterstadt\\
    }

\opening{Sehr geehrter Herr Mustermann,}

The header is not nice. \\

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,\\

Erika Musterfrau\\

\end{letter}
\end{document}

This results in the from-adress being flush with the bottom of the blue square. However, I would like the address to be centered vertically relative to the blue square. Is this possible using an .lco file or would I have to put the from-adress in the .tex file and build a custom header using firsthead?

Best Answer

In your example you can use the following either in the lco file or in the document itself:

\setkomavar{firsthead}{%
  \usekomafont{fromaddress}
  \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}l}
    \usekomavar{fromlogo}
  \end{tabular}%
  \hfill
  \begin{tabular}[c]{r@{}}
    \usekomavar{fromaddress}\\
    \usekomavar*{fromemail}\usekomavar{fromemail}\\
    \usekomavar{fromurl}
  \end{tabular}%
}

Example (with some changes):

\begin{filecontents*}{absender.lco}
\ProvidesFile{absender.lco}[letter-class-option file]

\RequirePackage{marvosym}
%\RequirePackage[utf8]{inputenc}% not needed with an uptodate MiKTeX or TL2018
\RequirePackage[ngerman]{babel}
\RequirePackage{xcolor}% <- changed

% Absenderdaten
\setkomavar{fromname}{Erika Musterfrau}% <- added
\setkomavar{fromaddress}{Hauptstraße 12\\00000 Hauptstadt\\Nimmerland}% <- changed

\setkomavar{fromemail}{musterfrau@example.nothing}
\setkomavar{fromurl}{www.example.nothing}
\setkomavar{fromlogo}{\includegraphics[height=3.2cm]{square.png}}

% Separatoren und Symbole
\setkomavar{phoneseparator}[\Mobilefone]{~}
\setkomavar{emailseparator}[\Letter]{~}

% Optisches:
\setkomafont{fromaddress}{\small\rmfamily\mdseries\slshape\color{black}}
\setkomafont{addressee}{\small}

\renewcommand*{\raggedsignature}{\raggedright}

% Kopfzeile auf erster Seite
\setkomavar{firsthead}{%
  \usekomafont{fromaddress}
  \begin{tabular}[c]{@{}l}
    \usekomavar{fromlogo}
  \end{tabular}%
  \hfill
  \begin{tabular}[c]{r@{}}
    \usekomavar{fromname}, {\usekomavar[\def\\{, }]{fromaddress}}\\
    \usekomavar*{emailseparator}\usekomavar{emailseparator}\usekomavar{fromemail}\\
    \usekomavar{fromurl}
  \end{tabular}%
}

% Definiere vertikalen Abstand vor der Unterschrift
\@setplength{sigbeforevskip}{1.8cm}
\endinput
\end{filecontents*}


\documentclass[
  draft,% <- I do not have the square picture
  absender,
]{scrlttr2}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\setkomavar{myref}{201807/Q}

\setkomavar{subject}{Question}
\setkomavar{date}{\today}
\setkomavar{place}{Hauptstadt}

\begin{letter}{
  Max Mustermann\\
  Musterstraße 1\\
  12345 Musterstadt\\
}

\opening{Sehr geehrter Herr Mustermann,}

The header is not nice. 

\closing{Mit freundlichen Grüßen,}
\end{letter}
\end{document}

Note that there is a warning regarding headheight.

Result:

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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 put sender address to the right on top of date in scrlttr2

You have made a reasonable start. scrlettr2 divides the page up in to various regions. At the top is a header region. Below that on the left is a region for the address the letter is to be sent to. At about the same level on the right-hand side is a region called location.

The option you choose fromalign=right moves the from address to the right, but keeps it in the header area. Instead the option fromalign=locationright, wiil move it down in to the location region.

Now by default the date appears in the reference line, a box placed below all these addresses. The date can be removed from that position, via the option refline=nodate. It can then be placed in the location region, by setting the koma variable location to the value of the koma variable date:

\setkomavar{location}{\usekomavar{date}}

Putting this together we get:

Sample output

\documentclass[paper=a4,parskip=full]{scrlttr2}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\KOMAoptions{foldmarks=off,backaddress=false,fromalign=locationright,refline=nodate}

\renewcommand*{\raggedsignature}{\raggedright}

\setkomavar{fromname}{John Public} 
\setkomavar{fromaddress}{Valley 2\\
  54321 Public-Village}
\setkomavar{location}{\usekomavar{date}}

\begin{document}

\begin{letter}{Addressee\\Road\\Town\\County}
\opening{Dear Sir,} 
A short text that constitutes the body of the letter.
\closing{Yours sincerely}
\end{letter}

\end{document}

Should you wish to have more space before the date you can change the definition you give to location. For example,

\setkomavar{location}{\vspace{\baselineskip}\usekomavar{date}}

produces a blank line before the date:

Blank line before date

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