cover_letter.tex

% LaTeX Curriculum Vitae Template
%
% Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Jason Blevins <jrblevin@sdf.lonestar.org>
% http://jblevins.org/projects/cv-template/
%
% You may use use this document as a template to create your own CV
% and you may redistribute the source code freely. No attribution is
% required in any resulting documents. I do ask that you please leave
% this notice and the above URL in the source code if you choose to
% redistribute this file.

% Updated, tweaked and changed by Erik Helin, 2010-2012.

\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}

\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}

% Comment the following lines to use the default Computer Modern font
% instead of the Palatino font provided by the mathpazo package.
% Remove the 'osf' bit if you don't like the old style figures.
\usepackage[swedish]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[sc,osf]{mathpazo}

% Set your name here
\def\name{John Doe}

% The following metadata will show up in the PDF properties
\hypersetup{
  colorlinks = true,
  urlcolor = black,
  pdfauthor = {\name},
  pdfkeywords = {\name, cover letter},
  pdftitle = {\name: Cover Letter},
  pdfsubject = {Cover Letter},
  pdfpagemode = UseNone
}

\geometry{
  body={6.5in, 8.5in},
  left=1.0in,
  top=1.25in
}

% Customize page headers
\pagestyle{myheadings}
\markright{\name}
\thispagestyle{empty}

% Custom section fonts
\usepackage{sectsty}
\sectionfont{\rmfamily\mdseries\Large}
\subsectionfont{\rmfamily\mdseries\itshape\large}

% Don't indent paragraphs.
\setlength\parindent{0em}

\begin{document}

\begin{minipage}{0.89\linewidth}
{\huge \name} \hfill San Fransisco, CA, USA, \today
\end{minipage}

% Alternatively, print name centered and bold:
%\centerline{\huge \bf \name}

\vspace{0.23in}

\begin{minipage}{0.51\linewidth}
  \vspace{-0.2in}
  1 Infinite Loop \\
  Cupertino, CA 950414 \\
  USA
\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}{0.5\linewidth}
  \begin{tabular}{l l}
    Birthdate: & January 3rd, 1976 \\
    Phone:     & (877) 412-7753 \\
    Email:     & \href{mailto:john.doe@gmail.com}{\tt john.doe@gmail.com} \\
    Code:      & \url{www.github.com/johndoe}
  \end{tabular}
\end{minipage}

% Start to write after this line
Dear Mr/Ms,\\
I would really like to work for your company!

Best regards,\\
John Doe
\end{document}