Tex Cover Letter Doesn't Display "Sincerely, My Name"

Question

I'm using the cover letter example from this website: http://www.matthewjmiller.net/howtos/customized-cover-letter-scripts/

What it should look like and the source of the tex is on that website, I can't link to more than 2 links without having reputation, so if you could check the website, that would be amazing.

Here is what I come out with:

1. FIXED: It went to the other page: (There is no "Sincerely, My Name") #1 is solved.
2. FIXED: I replaced a line with: "\newlfmP{headermarginskip=-40pt}" There is a huge space between the company letterhead and the date
3. The date is not in line with the address.

How do I fix these?

Answer 1

1. The letter ending rolls over to a subsequent page. If you wish it to remain on a single page, then you need to reduce the content you currently have.

2. The distance between the header and the start of the address block is consumed by lengths like \headermarginskip, \datebeforeskip and \dateafterskip. Setting any one of these to an appropriate negative value will push up the content.

3. The date in newlfm is set using \dateset. I would suggest, if you plan on requiring an alignment with the "from" address, to include the date there using \today\\[<len>] (where you specify an appropriate length <len> to separate the date from the address, if needed) and use \dateset{} (to remove the traditional date setting.

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On a related note, you can also obtain the formatting you want without sticking to structure provided by newlfm. Here's a take on such a document structure, written in the article class:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{url,charter,graphicx}% http://ctan.org/pkg/{url,charter,graphicx}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}% http://ctan.org/pkg/geometry
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{\jot}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}

\includegraphics[width=100pt]{example-image-a} \par
\rule{\textwidth}{1.5pt}

\null\hfill
\begin{tabular}{l@{}}
  \today \\[\jot]
    439 Coordinated Science Laboratory \\
    1308 West Main Street \\
    Urbana, IL 61801 \\
  Phone: 217-244-6024 \\
  Email: mjmille2@uiuc.edu
\end{tabular}  

\bigskip\bigskip

\begin{tabular}{@{}l}
  Faculty Search Committee \\
  Department of Computer Science \\
  Clemson University \\
  Clemson, SC 29634-0974
\end{tabular}

\bigskip

To Whom It May Concern,

\medskip

I am writing to apply for the position of assistant
professor in Clemson University's Computer Science Department. I plan to receive my
Ph.D.\ degree from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in Summer of~2006. My adviser is
Prof.\ Nitin H.\ Vaidya, and my general areas of interest
include wireless and sensor network performance and security.
 Having many friends and family in the area, I would be
most enthused to return to the South permanently by accepting
a position at your institution.

In my graduate work, I focus on the design of
energy-efficient protocols and secure key distribution.
More specifically, I have explored various techniques at
multiple layers of the network stack to effectively reduce
the energy consumption of wireless communication. In security,
my work was the first to propose leveraging channel diversity
for sensor network key distribution. My research appears in 
the \textit{IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing} journal as
well as \textit{Infocom~2006} and \textit{ICDCS~2005},
prestigious conferences in the areas of networking and distributed
systems, respectively.

Enclosed is my curriculum vitae (including a list of
publications), contact information for my references, a research
statement, and a teaching statement. All of my publications and
presentations are available at:

\url{http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/~mjmille2/publications/}

Please let me know if there are any other materials
or information that will assist you in processing my application.

Thank you for your consideration. I look forward to
hearing from you.

\bigskip

\null\hfill
\begin{tabular}{l@{}}
  Sincerely, \\[5\normalbaselineskip]
  Matthew J.\ Miller
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

I find the readability of the code to be easier. The sequence of input matches the output, rather than a scattered preamble for specifying content that makes its way into the start/end of the newlfm environment. There is, of course, also moderncv, which provides a similar layout.

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