Steve's (Non-Academic) Cover Letter Template

A template for cover letters when applying for non-academic jobs. For more information, see here: https://twitter.com/stevenvmiller/status/1320831949469065218. This template will force the use of xelatex.

Usage

cover_letter(...)

templ_cover_letter()

Arguments

...

Arguments to rmarkdown::pdf_document.

About YAML header fields

This section documents some of the YAML fields to know for this template.

FIELD	DESCRIPTION
author	name of the author
address	the author's address, which can (and should) be piped with | separators
email	the author's email
url	the author's website domain
phone	the author's phone number
fontawesome	logical, defaults to TRUE. If TRUE, use fontawesome icons
mainfont	The main font to use with xelatex. I use cochineal here. Optional, but recommended.
monofont	The monospaced font to use with xelatex. I use Fira Code here. Optional, but recommended.
date	Specify a date format
greetings	Specify a salutations to start the letter