mdavis-xyz / friggeri-letter

A LaTeX template for a cover letter to go with the Friggeri Resume

friggeri-letter

This is a LaTeX template for a cover letter to go with a resume created with the friggeri-cv resume template.

The letter

All resumes should have a cover letter (so I'm told). It would be inconsistent to stick a normal LaTeX letter in front of a friggeri resume. Also, a normal LaTeX letter is not as eye-catching.

This letter class uses the same eye catching header as the Friggeri CV, and uses the Roboto font.

The resume

I've also modified the original friggeri-cv template:

• The original one used the HelveticaNeue font family, which costs money. I changed it to use the almost identical Roboto font family, which is free. For convenience, I've included the Robot fonts in this repo.
• I adjusted the coloring of the headings in the resume, so the whole heading is coloured, not just the first 3 letters. To install the fonts, just double click on them in a file browser. Your operating system should then ask if you want to install them.
• I tinkered with the spacing of the column where you enter the years, so that new line breaks are automatic.
• I changed the link coloring, so that links are the same colour as everything else
• I got rid of the bibliography stuff, because who needs a bibliography in a resume?
• I adjusted the aside section (the contacts in the left margin), so now they appear on every page. The motivation for this is in case the pages of a hard copy get separated. In the example, the name appears in the contact details in all but the first page (because it's in the header on the first page). This template change means changing aside from an environment to a command. So look at the example to see the new syntax.

Usage

• Install the fonts.
• Have the .cls file(s) in the same folder as your .tex file(s). (There's probably a way to install them properly. I don't know what that is.)
• Start with the example .tex file(s) and modify them to suit your needs.
• This template needs to be compiled with XeLaTeX

Acknowledgements and Copyleft

This code was adapted from the original code written by Adrien Friggeri under the MIT License, printed in full in LICENSE.txt.

The fonts come from Google Fonts and are free under the Apache 2.0 licence.

To do

• Change spacing so that everything lines up relative to the 1/3 fold mark
• Add option to only put contact details on the first page
• Get rid of magic numbers in the templates, so it works with other paper sizes. (Then again, who doesn't use A4?)

friggeri-letter's Issues

A4 paper size

Get rid of magic numbers in the templates, so it works with other paper sizes. (Then again, who doesn't use A4?)

I do not understand this comment from the README.md. The example-resume.tex uses US letter paper size (8.5x11 inch or 215.9x279.4 mm). You need to add the option \documentclass[a4paper]{friggeri-cv} to use the A4 paper size (8.26389x11.6944 inch or 210x297 mm).

License/Copyright issue

First of all, let me say that I like your improvements very much. They look great!

But IMHO the CV by Adrien Friggeri is under MIT licence. You can check that for example at archive.org. It reads:

Copyright (C) 2012, Adrien Friggeri

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Where did you find it under CC BY-NC-SA?

XeLaTeX doesn't like inputenc

XeLaTeX complains (but ultimately allows it) about the use of the inputenc package in the template file example-cover-letter.tex. I removed that line (#24) and it seems to work fine. The cv example template doesn't use this package, so I'm guessing you didn't intentionally put it in there.

How would you add more "aside" sections

In the old version it was possible just by doing

\begin{aside}
  \section{about}
    aaa
    bbb
  \section{about}
    aaa
    bbb
\end{aside}

Now, this does not compile.

Is it still possible to add more than one section in the aside column?