I am modifying my cover letter with moderncv. In particular, I want to add a title line, justifying the body text and align both adresses on the same height (companies adress top left, my adress top right). I found a couple of posts to the regarding Topics and I add the code parts into my TeX file. They are all working singular, but not in combination and I can't figure out why. Here is the MWE:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{tabularx}
% moderncv themes
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\setlength{\hintscolumnwidth}{3.3cm}
% character encoding
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\name{Name}{name}
\title{Lebenslauf}
\address{...}{...}
\phone[mobile]{...}
\email{Mail}
%Justification
\usepackage{etoolbox}% http://ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\makeletterhead}% <cmd>
{\raggedright \@opening}% <search>
{\@opening}% <replace>
{}{}% <success><failure>
\makeatother
%Adds title
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\makeletterhead}{%search
\raggedright%
\@opening\\[1.5em]%
}{%replace
\raggedright%
\textbf{\@title}\\[1.5em]
\@opening\\[1.5em]%
}{%success
}{%failure
}
\makeatother
%Should align both adresses on the same "height"
\makeatletter
\renewcommand*{\makeletterhead}{%
% recompute lengths (in case we are switching from letter to resume, or vice versa)
\recomputeletterlengths%
% recipient block
\begin{minipage}[t]{.49\textwidth} % <================================
\raggedright%
\addressfont%
{\bfseries\upshape\@recipientname}\\%
\@recipientaddress%
\end{minipage}
% sender contact info
\hfill%
\begin{minipage}[t]{.49\textwidth}% <=================================
% optional detailed information
\if@details%
\raggedleft%
\addressfont\textcolor{color2}{%
{\bfseries\upshape\@firstname~\@lastname}\@firstdetailselementfalse%
% optional detailed information
\ifthenelse{\isundefined{\@addressstreet}}{}{\makenewline\addresssymbol\@addressstreet%
\ifthenelse{\equal{\@addresscity}{}}{}{\makenewline\@addresscity}% if \addresstreet is defined, \addresscity and addresscountry will always be defined but could be empty
\ifthenelse{\equal{\@addresscountry}{}}{}{\makenewline\@addresscountry}}%
\collectionloop{phones}{% the key holds the phone type (=symbol command prefix), the item holds the number
\makenewline\csname\collectionloopkey phonesymbol\endcsname\collectionloopitem}%
\ifthenelse{\isundefined{\@email}}{}{\makenewline\emailsymbol\emaillink{\@email}}%
\ifthenelse{\isundefined{\@homepage}}{}{\makenewline\homepagesymbol\httplink{\@homepage}}%
\ifthenelse{\isundefined{\@extrainfo}}{}{\makenewline\@extrainfo}}\fi%
\\[1em] % <=======================================================
\@date % <========================================================
\end{minipage}\\[2em]
% opening
% \raggedright% <=======================================================
\@opening\\[1.5em]%
% ensure no extra spacing after \makelettertitle due to a possible blank line
% \ignorespacesafterend% not working
\hspace{0pt}\par\vspace{-\baselineskip}\vspace{-\parskip}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\makecvtitle
\section{Foo}
\section{Foo2}
\subsection*{FooFoo}
\clearpage
%----- letter ---------------------------------------------------------
% recipient data
\recipient{Company Recruitment team}{Company, Inc.\\123 somestreet\\some city}
\title{Heading should look like this} % <===============================
\date{January 01, 1984}
\opening{Dear Sir or Madam,}
\closing{Yours faithfully,}
\enclosure[Attached]{curriculum vit\ae{}}
\makelettertitle
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\end{document}
The cover letter is justified and the adresses are on the same height, but the title is not involved. Maybe someone knows how to solve that problem. I am not so advanced to understand the changes in the \patchcmd arguments, Maybe there is the problem.
I already tried the regarding code here, but it doesnt work in combination with the justificatoin and the alignment of the adress
moderncvbecause your attached CV? If you don't have a CV attached to it, you can just recreate a cover letter using the regulararticledocument class. – Werner Oct 10 '18 at 5:22