vertical alignment in moderncv

Question

I'm writing my full job application with moderncv.

I don't want to use other classes for the letter, because I can't use the fancy heading of the moderncv title there.

For the letter I need to know how to align a plain-text in centi- or milimeters from the top of the page. With "top of the page" I mean the actual beginnig of the paper, not the geomerty borders or similar.

See picture for detail:

Thanks for help

EDIT EDIT EDIT

because of boobyandbobs problem understanding me, I specify it a litte:

At first you need to know, I'm german.

Germany has a standard for postal mails

This standard demands specifications like, as an example this:

The creators contact details have to be displayed aligned left and 1.5 centimeters from top of the page
The date and place from the creation of the letter have to be displayed aligned right and 2.2 centimeters from top

and so on.

See this picture for clearence:

EDIT EDIT EDIT number 2

Sorry, but this drives me nuts

See MWE:

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{moderncv}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}   
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  
\usepackage[left=2.5cm, right=2.0cm, top=1.0cm, bottom=1.0cm]{geometry}  
\usepackage{fontawesome}  
\moderncvtheme[blue]{classic}
\name{{\scshape\Huge My}}{{\scshape Name}}
\address{My street}{12345 There}
\phone[handy]{\faMobile\hspace{2pt}0173\,1111111}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\makecvtitle
\vspace{1cm}
\color{red}{!This has to be 2.2 centimeter from actual beginning of paper!\color{black}\\

\color{blue}{!This block\\has to be 3.4 centimeter\\from actual beginning of paper!\color{black}\\

\flushright \color{red}{This must be 4.3 centimeter from the top of the paper\color{black}\\
\flushleft
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{document}

MWE looks like:

So you need to different vertical space for your text(like in the picture)? Its a bit unclear for me. Otherwise: Does Changing margins in moderncv help ? For example top=2cm? — Bobyandbob, Nov 16 '17 at 17:04
see edit, hope it helps. Things like "top=2cm" can't be used, because the displaying of makecvtitle has to start before — T. Ger, Nov 16 '17 at 17:20
You could try What are the ways to position things absolutely on the page?. But i suggest the handling isen't easy for your solution. A helpful grid to check the distance could be How can I make a perfect page grid that fits my page...?. For negative spacing you could use Get width of a given text as length with Function determining the length of text.... — Bobyandbob, Nov 16 '17 at 23:39
... i get a solutuon. But its very tricky and i still have problems with the text block(multiple lines, because another anchor with minipage) so its no final answer for you. — Bobyandbob, Nov 16 '17 at 23:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 17 '17 at 00:59

Here is my first try. As been noted in the commentary its not a optimal solution but maybe it could help a little bit. The lines and margins are just generated optional with \usepackage{showframe} and \showgrid(Ref. @esdd )to see the dimensions, and could bet removed.

1. Position things absolutely on the page: Using the helper macros \AtTextUpperLeft or \AtPageUpperLeft (see eso-pic) for easier positioning on the page. Then moved away from \AtTextUpperLeft with some horizontal (\hspace*{<cm>}) and veritical (\raisebox{<cm>}{}) space. To get negative spacing i used \hspace{0pt-\widthof{<text>} to get right aligned text.

2. Length of given text: The calc package is used to get width of a given text as length.

I used code parts of:

@Werner's answer: using eso-pic to specific page locations
@DavidCarlisle patch: to fix a problem using \widthof

MWE:

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{moderncv}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}   
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  
\usepackage[left=2.5cm, right=2.0cm, top=1.0cm, bottom=1.0cm]{geometry}  
\usepackage{fontawesome}  
\moderncvtheme[blue]{classic}
\name{{\scshape\Huge My}}{{\scshape Name}}
\address{My street}{12345 There}
\phone[handy]{\faMobile\hspace{2pt}0173\,1111111}
\usepackage{lipsum,xcolor}
\usepackage{showframe}
\usepackage{eso-pic}

\usepackage{calc}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% code of @https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/99242/124842
\makeatletter
\def\@hspace#1{\begingroup\setlength\dimen@{#1}\hskip\dimen@\endgroup}
\makeatother
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\usepackage{tikz}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% \showgrid with help of  @https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/229850/124842
\newcommand{\showgrid}{%
  \AddToShipoutPictureFG*{%
    \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture,
        thin,nodes={font=\fontsize{1}{2}\selectfont},
        yshift=\paperheight% origin is in the upper left corner
        ]
      \draw[gray!25,step=1cm](current page.south west)grid(current page.north east);
      \draw[blue!30!gray,step=10cm](current page.south west) grid(current page.north east);
      \pgfmathtruncatemacro\xmaxstep{\paperwidth/1cm}% calculate needed steps in x direction
      \pgfmathtruncatemacro\ymaxstep{\paperheight/1cm}% calculate needed steps in y direction
      \foreach \step in {0,1,...,\xmaxstep}
        \node [anchor=north] at ([xshift=\step cm]current page.north west) {\step};
      \foreach \step in {0,1,...,\ymaxstep}
        \node [anchor=west] at ([yshift=-\step cm]current page.north west) {\step};
    \end{tikzpicture}%
  }%
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}

\AddToShipoutPictureBG*{%

%\AtPageUpperLeft{%
%\hspace*{2.5cm}\raisebox{-2.2cm}{%
  \AtTextUpperLeft{%
  \hspace*{0cm}\hspace*{\textwidth}\hspace{0pt-\widthof{Is this okay? ...4.3 centimeter from the top of the paper}}\hspace{2cm-0.81cm}\raisebox{-4.3cm}{%
  \color{red}Is this okay? ...4.3 centimeter from the top of the paper
  }}

\AtTextUpperLeft{%
\hspace*{0cm}\raisebox{-2.2cm}{%
\color{blue}Is this okay? ...2.2 centimeter from the top of the paper
}
}

\AtTextUpperLeft{%
\hspace*{0cm}\raisebox{-3.4cm}{%
\color{blue}
Is this okay? ...3.4 centimeter from the top of the paper ... (single line)
}
}%

\AtTextUpperLeft{%
\hspace*{0cm}\raisebox{-3.87cm}{%
\color{green}
\begin{minipage}{30em}
 Is this okay? ...3.4 centimeter from the top of the paper \\
next line \\
... and ...
\end{minipage}
}}
}%

\showgrid
\makecvtitle
\vspace{1cm}
\flushleft
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{document}

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 22 '19 at 00:06

1

Thanks to Bobbyanbob, but the now deleted comment fits it better. The mentioned, german, document (http://archiv.dante.de/DTK/PDF/komoedie_2011_1.pdf) gave me a nice solution on page 30-40.

edited May 22 '19 at 00:06

Mensch

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answered Nov 17 '17 at 13:52

T. Ger

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vertical alignment in moderncv

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