[Tex/LaTex] Vertical alignment of cvline in moderncv

moderncvvertical alignment

I am currently updating my CV and using the moderncv package. When I've updated the 'Languages' section, I've encountered a problem:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{moderncv}

\moderncvtheme[grey]{casual}
\usepackage[english,ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}                 

\firstname{Firstname}
\familyname{Name}

\setlength{\hintscolumnwidth}{0.3\textwidth} % widen first column within CV 

\begin{document}

    \maketitle
    \section{Languages}
    \cvline{German}{Hallo, mein Name ist Fritz, Ich would like to haben ein Sauerkraut with Schnitzel, bitte. Und dazu ein deutsches Weizenbier. Bitte wo ist der Schlossmuseum? I know a little German, he's sitting over there.}
    \cvline{German Sign Language (DGS)}{Basics}

\end{document}

That results in:
Image: result

So my question is: Is it possible to adjust the vertical alignment of the first respectively of the second column in a cvline to middle? I would like that the Basics is in the middle (vertically) of the German Sign Language (DGS). The other case (aligning the left column vertically) is not that important to me.

Best Answer

In the following example I defined a \ccvitem command that behaves as \cvitem, but with vertical alignment of the columns content (instead of p{...} columns, \ccvitem uses m{...} columns available through the array package):

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{moderncv}

\moderncvtheme[grey]{casual}
\usepackage[english,ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}                 
\usepackage{array}

\firstname{Firstname}
\familyname{Name}

\setlength{\hintscolumnwidth}{0.3\textwidth} % widen second column within CV 

\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\ccvitem}[3][.25em]{%
  \begin{tabular}{@{}m{\hintscolumnwidth}@{\hspace{\separatorcolumnwidth}}m{\maincolumnwidth}@{}}%
    \raggedleft\hintstyle{#2} &{#3}%
  \end{tabular}%
  \par\addvspace{#1}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

    \maketitle
    \section{Languages}
    \cvitem{German}{Hallo, mein Name ist Fritz, Ich would like to haben ein Sauerkraut with Schnitzel, bitte. Und dazu ein deutsches Weizenbier. Bitte wo ist der Schlossmuseum? I know a little German, he's sitting over there.}
    \cvitem{German Sign Language (DGS)}{Basics}
    \ccvitem{German}{Hallo, mein Name ist Fritz, Ich would like to haben ein Sauerkraut with Schnitzel, bitte. Und dazu ein deutsches Weizenbier. Bitte wo ist der Schlossmuseum? I know a little German, he's sitting over there.}
    \ccvitem{German Sign Language (DGS)}{Basics}

\end{document}

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By the way, you could use \cvitem instead of \cvline that appears to be still around just for compatibility with older versions of moderncv.

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Here are three solutions that achieve output similar to what you want in different ways. I couldn't figure how to get rid of the whitespace before itemize in a tabular, but that seems to be a general issue and not something specific to moderncv.

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\moderncvtheme{casual}

\usepackage{geometry}

\firstname{first} \familyname{last}

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% This seems to be the best solution to me

\cvlistitem{\parbox[t]{5cm}{Item 1}
\parbox[t]{5cm}{
\lipsum[66]
x \\
x \\
}}

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% \labelitemi is the macro LaTeX uses to insert the itemize bullet.
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\cvline{}{
\begin{tabular}{p{5cm}p{5cm}}
\labelitemi~Item 1 & \lipsum*[66] \\
                   & x \\
                   & x \\
\end{tabular}}

% This version is a little more idiosyncratic to moderncv's layout with
% a "label" in the left column. Note, however, how the bullets don't line up.
% This doesn't happen with the other solutions.
% If you don't want the paragraphs to be as wide, you can replace \linewidth
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x \\
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[Tex/LaTex] How to set different alignment for Name/Title in ModernCV

The name etc. are placed in a \begin{minipage}[b]...\end{minipage} and the information on the right is in a \begin{tabular}[b]..\end{tabular}. You can remove or change the alignment arguments [b] with the patching commands from etoolbox. The following will give vertical centering, which was your preferred option. Updated for newer versions of moderncv:

\documentclass{moderncv}

\moderncvstyle{classic}

\name{John}{Doe}
\address{Street St., 167}{8888 Town}{Country}
\phone{+1~(234)~567~890}
\homepage{xxx.ddd.cc.ee}

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\patchcmd{\makecvhead}{{minipage}[b]}{{minipage}[c]}{}{}
\patchcmd{\makecvhead}{{tabular}[b]}{{tabular}[c]}{}{}

\begin{document}
\makecvtitle

\end{document}

Use [t] arguments aligns at the top, but this with respect to baselines of the first line of each box, so is often not what you expect.

Working a bit harder we get top alignment as follows:

\documentclass{moderncv}

\moderncvstyle{classic}

\name{John}{Doe}
\address{Street St., 167}{8888 Town}{Country}
\phone{+1~(234)~567~890}
\homepage{xxx.ddd.cc.ee}

\usepackage{etoolbox}

\patchcmd{\makecvhead}{{minipage}[b]}{{minipage}[t]}{}{}

\newsavebox{\mytempbox}
\newlength{\mytitleoffset}
\savebox{\mytempbox}{\addressfont S}
\setlength{\mytitleoffset}{\ht\mytempbox}

\patchcmd{\makecvhead}{\raggedleft\fi}{\raggedleft\fi\vspace{-\mytitleoffset}}{}{}
\patchcmd{\makecvhead}{{tabular}[b]}{{tabular}[t]}{}{}


\begin{document}
\makecvtitle

\end{document}

Note that we have measured the height of the largest character S in the first line of the address. With other material in that block you would have find something appropriate to measure.

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