thau/cover-letter-generator

My cover letter generator

Cover Letter Boilerplate

Dependencies

1. LaTeX with the following extra packages: fontspec geometry ragged2e enumitem xunicode xltxtra hyperref polyglossia footmisc (also, datetime2 plus its language modules if you want to use a custom date, see below in the settings section)
2. Pandoc, the universal document converter.
3. Open Sans

To install LaTeX on Mac OS X, I recommend getting the smaller version BasicTeX from here and installing the additional packages with tlmgr afterwards. Same goes for Linux: install texlive-base with your package manager and add the needed additional packages later.

To install pandoc on Mac OS X, run brew install pandoc. To install it on Linux, refer to the official docs.

To install Open Sans on Mac OX X, run brew install font-open-sans.

Getting started

1. Copy letter.example.md to letter.md and fill the YAML frontmatter with your details, your recipient's details, optional subject line, and the desired settings.
2. Write your letter in markdown below.
3. Run make to compile the PDF.

Note: this template needs to be compiled with XeTeX.

License

MIT