I want to get rid of the separator dots between the details (phones, socials). I assume that I need to make a change in moderncvheadiii.sty, but I cannot figure out where I should edit. Can anyone help?
%% start of file `moderncvheadiii.sty'.
%% Copyright 2006-2015 Xavier Danaux (xdanaux@gmail.com).
%
% This work may be distributed and/or modified under the
% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License version 1.3c,
% available at http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/.
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% identification
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{moderncvheadiii}[2015/07/28 v2.0.0 modern curriculum vitae and letter header variant: 3]
% details options: "details" (default) or "nodetails"
@initializeif{\if@details}@detailsfalse
\DeclareOption{details}{@detailstrue}
\DeclareOption{nodetails}{@detailsfalse}
\DeclareOption{}% avoid choking on unknown options
\ExecuteOptions{details}
\ProcessOptions\relax% \ProcessOptions* processes the options in the order provided (i.e., with the later ones possibly overriding the former ones), while \ProcessOptions processes them in the order of the package
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% required packages
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% overall head definition
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% fonts
\renewcommand{\namefont}{\Huge\bfseries\upshape}
\renewcommand{\titlefont}{\Huge\mdseries\upshape}
\renewcommand{\addressfont}{\normalsize\mdseries\upshape}
\renewcommand{\quotefont}{\large\slshape}
% styles
\renewcommand{\namestyle}[1]{{\namefont\textcolor{color1}{#1}}}
\renewcommand{\titlestyle}[1]{{\titlefont\textcolor{color2!85}{#1}}}
\renewcommand{\addressstyle}[1]{{\addressfont\textcolor{color2}{#1}}}
\renewcommand{\quotestyle}[1]{{\quotefont\textcolor{color1}{#1}}}
% commands
@initializecommand{\makeheaddetailssymbol}{%
{~{\rmfamily\textbullet}~}}% the \rmfamily is required to force Latin Modern fonts when using sans serif, as OMS/lmss/m/n is not defined and gets substituted by OMS/cmsy/m/n
% internal command to add an element to the footer
% it collects the elements in a temporary box, and checks when to flush the box
@initializebox{\makeheaddetailsbox}%
@initializebox{\makeheaddetailstempbox}%
@initializelength{\makeheaddetailswidth}%
@initializelength{\makeheaddetailsboxwidth}%
@initializeif{\if@firstmakeheaddetailselement}@firstmakeheaddetailselementtrue%
% adds an element to the makehead, separated by makeheadsymbol
% usage: \addtomakehead[makeheadsymbol]{element}
\newcommand*{\addtomakeheaddetails}[2][\makeheaddetailssymbol]{% TODO: use @initializecommand, which requires modifying its definition to handle mandatory and optional arguments
\if@firstmakeheaddetailselement%
\savebox{\makeheaddetailstempbox}{\usebox{\makeheaddetailsbox}#2}%
\else%
\savebox{\makeheaddetailstempbox}{\usebox{\makeheaddetailsbox}#1#2}\fi%
\settowidth{\makeheaddetailsboxwidth}{\usebox{\makeheaddetailstempbox}}%
\ifnum\makeheaddetailsboxwidth<\makeheaddetailswidth%
\savebox{\makeheaddetailsbox}{\usebox{\makeheaddetailstempbox}}%
@firstmakeheaddetailselementfalse%
\else%
\flushmakeheaddetails\%
\savebox{\makeheaddetailsbox}{#2}%
\savebox{\makeheaddetailstempbox}{#2}%
\settowidth{\makeheaddetailsboxwidth}{\usebox{\makeheaddetailsbox}}%
@firstmakeheaddetailselementfalse\fi}
% internal command to flush the makehead
@initializecommand{\flushmakeheaddetails}{%
\strut\usebox{\makeheaddetailsbox}%
\savebox{\makeheaddetailsbox}{}%
\savebox{\makeheaddetailstempbox}{}%
\setlength{\makeheaddetailsboxwidth}{0pt}}
@initializecommand{\makehead}{%
\setlength{\makeheaddetailswidth}{0.8\textwidth}%
\hfil%
\parbox{\makeheaddetailswidth}{%
\centering%
% name and title
\namestyle{@firstname~@lastname}%
\ifthenelse{\equal{@title}{}}{}{\titlestyle{~|~@title}}\% \isundefined doesn't work on @title, as LaTeX itself defines @title (before it possibly gets redefined by \title)
% optional detailed information
\if@details{%
\addressfont\color{color2}%
\ifthenelse{\isundefined{@addressstreet}}{}{\addtomakeheaddetails{\addresssymbol@addressstreet}%
\ifthenelse{\equal{@addresscity}{}}{}{\addtomakeheaddetails[~--~]{@addresscity}}% if \addresstreet is defined, \addresscity and \addresscountry will always be defined but could be empty
\ifthenelse{\equal{@addresscountry}{}}{}{\addtomakeheaddetails[~--~]{@addresscountry}}%
\flushmakeheaddetails@firstmakeheaddetailselementtrue\\null}%
\collectionloop{phones}{% the key holds the phone type (=symbol command prefix), the item holds the number
\addtomakeheaddetails{\csname\collectionloopkey phonesymbol\endcsname\collectionloopitem}}%
\ifthenelse{\isundefined{@email}}{}{\addtomakeheaddetails{\emailsymbol\emaillink{@email}}}%
\ifthenelse{\isundefined{@homepage}}{}{\addtomakeheaddetails{\homepagesymbol\httplink{@homepage}}}%
\collectionloop{socials}{% the key holds the social type (=symbol command prefix), the item holds the link
\addtomakeheaddetails{\csname\collectionloopkey socialsymbol\endcsname\collectionloopitem}}%
\ifthenelse{\isundefined{@extrainfo}}{}{\addtomakeheaddetails{@extrainfo}}%
\flushmakeheaddetails}\fi}\[2.5em]}% need to force a \par after this to avoid weird spacing bug at the first section if no blank line is left after \makehead
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% resume head definition
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% lengths
@initializelength{\quotewidth}
\renewcommand*{\recomputecvheadlengths}{%
\setlength{\quotewidth}{0.65\textwidth}}
% commands
\renewcommand*{\makecvhead}{% TODO: use @initializecommand, which requires modifying its definition to handle \par
% recompute lengths (in case we are switching from letter to resume, or vice versa)
\recomputecvlengths%
\makehead%
% optional quote
\ifthenelse{\isundefined{@quote}}%
{}%
{{\centering\begin{minipage}{\quotewidth}\centering\quotestyle{@quote}\end{minipage}\[2.5em]}}%
\par}% to avoid weird spacing bug at the first section if no blank line is left after \maketitle}
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% letter head definition
%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% lengths
%\renewcommand*{\recomputeletterheadlengths}{}
% commands
\renewcommand*{\makeletterhead}{%
% recompute lengths (in case we are switching from letter to resume, or vice versa)
\recomputeletterlengths%
% sender block
\makehead%
\par%
% recipient block
\begin{minipage}[t]{.5\textwidth}
\raggedright%
\addressfont%
{\bfseries\upshape@recipientname}\%
@recipientaddress%
\end{minipage}
% date
\hfill% US style
% \[1em]% UK style
@date\[2em]% US informal style: "January 1, 1900"; UK formal style: "01/01/1900"
% 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}}
\endinput
%% end of file `moderncvheadiii.sty'.
\textbullet. – Dr. Manuel Kuehner Nov 14 '20 at 07:50