Cover Letter

The class cover.cls provides a template for a one page cover letter to accompany a curriculum vitae or a resume.

Included Packages

In addition to the packages in the default article class, this class includes:

• graphicx to handle figures and pictures,

• enumitem to control the spacing in enumeration environments,

• fontawesome for symbols and icons,

• booktabs for an improved tabular environment (with multicol and multirow support if needed),

• xcolor for coloured text and output,

• framed for shaded backgrounds,

• mdframed for Tikz boxes,

• ragged2e to improve text alignment,

• bookmark for hyperref and metadata.

Fonts and Compiler

The class uses XeLaTeX to compile in order to have access to system fonts. By default it uses the DejaVu Sans family.

Macros

The following macros are defined for metadata and title:

• \authorname for the author's first and middle name,

• \authorsurname for the author's surname,

• \skypename for the author's Skype username,

• \skypeinvite for the author's Skype link,

• \github for the author's GitHub link (username),

• \linkedin for the author's LinkedIN profile (username),

• \phone for the author's phone number,

• \email for the author's e-mail link,

• \address for the work or home address.

Commands and Environments

The class simply renews the \maketitle command to display information input using macros in fancier way. It also provides the environment \begin{receiver} ... \end{receiver} to enter the generalities of the receiving end of the cover letter.