moderncv - typeset 2 words first name and 2 words second name

Question

My name is, Enrico Maria De Angelis. Using moderncv class and template, my name is typeset in two lines: "Enrico Maria De" in the first line, "Angelis" in the second line. How could I solve this problem?

I would at least have "Enrico Maria" written in the first line and "De Angelis" in the second one. This would be enough, I think, but I accept suggestions.

EDIT: Thanks to @Federico Poloni the problem is amost solved using \name{Enrico~Maria}{De~Angelis}.

For the sake of clarity, if you want to reproduce the problem you can use the file template.tex provided with the class, changing \name{John}{Doe} in \name{Enrico~Maria}{De~Angelis}

There's a way to add more space between the two lines?

Answer 1

There is a little bug in class moderncv that causes the unwanted behaviour you got.

With the following MWE your problem is solved, but please have an eye on changes of class moderncv. With a later version it could happen, that this manual correction will not work longer.

It should be enouph to change the \namefont to use a proper distance of two lines (second numer). A good value could be fontsize+20%, like:

\renewcommand*{\namefont}{\fontsize{34}{41}\mdseries\upshape}

That does not work (you can try with bigger numbers like 81 instead of 41).

So we need to "hack" the class with:

%\usepackage{etoolbox} % already loaded by moderncv!
\makeatletter % <=======================================================
\patchcmd{\makecvhead}{%search
        \namestyle{\@firstname\ \@lastname}%
        }{%replace
        \namestyle{\@firstname\ \\[0.8ex]\@lastname}% <===================
        }{%success
  }{%failure
  }
\makeatother % <========================================================

There I added an \\[0.8ex] between first and lastname to force an linebreak with a vertical space of 0.8ex. You can play with this, you can also use 0.5cm or simular. Now the bigger space is granted and you do not have to write ~ in your first and last names ... commands \makeatletter and \makeatother are neccessary, because we had to use @.

MWE:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} 

% moderncv themes
\moderncvstyle{classic}  
\moderncvcolor{blue}    
%\renewcommand*{\namefont}{\fontsize{34}{81}\mdseries\upshape}%{34}{41}

% character encoding
 \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}    

% adjust the page margins
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
%\setlength{\hintscolumnwidth}{3cm}     
%\setlength{\makecvtitlenamewidth}{10cm}  

% personal data
\name{Enrico Maria}{De Angelis}
\title{Resumé title}
\address{street and number}{postcode city}{country}
\phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890}                   
\phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
\phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
\email{john@doe.org}                              
\homepage{www.johndoe.com}                         
\social[linkedin]{john.doe}                        
\social[twitter]{jdoe}                             
\social[github]{jdoe}                              
\extrainfo{additional information}  
\photo[64pt][0.4pt]{example-image-a}  
\quote{Some quote}                  

\setlength{\footskip}{66pt}

%\usepackage{etoolbox} % already loaded by moderncv!
\makeatletter % <=======================================================
\patchcmd{\makecvhead}{%search
        \namestyle{\@firstname\ \@lastname}%
        }{%replace
        \namestyle{\@firstname\ \\[0.8ex]\@lastname}% <===================
        }{%success
  }{%failure
  }
\makeatother % <========================================================


\begin{document}

\makecvtitle

\section{Education}
\cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{\textit{Grade}}{Description} 
\cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{\textit{Grade}}{Description}

\section{Master thesis}
\cvitem{title}{\emph{Title}}
\cvitem{supervisors}{Supervisors}
\cvitem{description}{Short thesis abstract}

\end{document}

and the result: