Mrthfx

I want to place the date aboce the receiver address in Koma scrlttr2. I'm using the NF.lco or LoadLetterOption{NF}

In French letters,

• the first line contains the date, flushed to the right


• then the sender address on the left


• then the receiver address on the right


• then the subject


• ...

I can use the excellent lettre class from 'Observatoire de Genève' to obtain the correct french layout (see below), but I'm constrained by my org-mode export tool using koma scrlttr2 as the latex class.

How do I do that ?

In fact I'de love to have an org-mode tool to export directly to the lettre class. An alternative would be to reproduce the 'lettre' layout in a .lco file. but that not my question here.

I probably have not read enough linearly the official documentation but random regex search in it for 'date' 'date.*position' 'position' did not give me satisfying results.

Below are illustration of what I have and then what I want

What I have

for the following code

documentclass[a4paper,11pt,french]{scrlttr2}



usepackage{palatino} 

usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 

usepackage{ucs} 

usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} 

usepackage{eurosym} 

usepackage{geometry} 

usepackage{graphicx} 

geometry{verbose,a4paper,lmargin=3cm,rmargin=3cm}



setlengthparskip{medskipamount} setlengthparindent{0pt}



usepackage{setspace} usepackage{lipsum} setstretch{1.15}



LoadLetterOption{NF}%                         



KOMAoptions{%

   fromalign=left% alignment of the address

  ,fromphone=true%         print sender phone number 

  ,fromemail=true%  print sender e-mail address  

  ,fromlogo=true%         print a logo (position depends on fromalign)

}



setkomavar{date}{le today}



setkomafont{backaddress}{rmfamily} 

setkomafont{fromaddress}{small} 

setkomafont{fromname}{scshape} 

setkomavar{backaddressseparator}{ $cdot$ } 

setkomavar{backaddress}{}



setkomavar{emailseparator}{~:~} setkomavar{enclseparator}{ > } setkomavar{fromaddress}{7-13 rue dejourney\  49000 ANGERS} setkomavar{fromemail}{gigiair@gigiair.fr} setkomavar{fromname}{Gigiair} setkomavar{fromphone}{0123 456 789} setkomavar{phoneseparator}{~:~} setkomavar{place}{Angers} setkomavar{signature}{qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad  quad  quad includegraphics[width=2.5cm]{signature}} setkomavar{subjectseparator}{ >>> } setkomavar{subject}{Modèle}



usepackage{babel}



begin{document}





begin{letter}{`A Madame la centurion\

    Camps de Babaurum\

    Bretagne conquise}   defconcname{Objet :~} 



  opening{Madame la centurion,}   C'est une invitation pour manger du sanglier roti.   closing{à la tienne !}



  cc{Panoramix et Obleix} end{letter} end{document}

and what I want

from the following code

documentclass[11pt, francais]{lettre} usepackage[T1]{fontenc} usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} usepackage{lmodern} usepackage[francais]{babel} usepackage{mathcomp} usepackage{url}



makeatletter newcommand*{NoRule}{renewcommand*{rule@length}{0}} makeatother



begin{document}



begin{letter}   {`A Madame la centurion

    \Camps de Babaurum

    \Bretagne conquise}   defconcname{Objet :~}    conc{Fête au village}



  NoRule



  name{Abraracourcix chef}   address{Village des irréductibles Gaulois\ Armorique}   lieu{Bretagne Libre}



  telephone{0123 456 789}   nofax   email{goscini@uderzo.be}



  opening{Madame la centurion,}   C'est une invitation pour manger du sanglier roti.   closing{à la tienne !}



  cc{Panoramix et Obleix}





end{letter} end{document}

Because I do not know the rules for french letters (is'nt there a *.lco file for french speaking swiss, simular to letters in france?) I let it to you to work it out precisley.

In your case you need to define a new firsthead like:

setkomavar{firsthead}{%

  begin{tabular}[t]{l@{}}%

    usekomavar{fromname}\

    usekomavar*{fromphone}usekomavar{fromphone}\

    usekomavar*{fromemail}usekomavar{fromemail}

  end{tabular}

  hfill

  normalsize

  Angers, le today % <=================================================

} 

Please see I added the place and date directly in the code above (marking <======).
To get no place and date printed in the refline you need to use the following two lines:

%setkomavar{place}{Angers} 

date{}

Please see the following complete code

documentclass[%

  paper=a4,

  fontsize=11pt,

  french,

]{scrlttr2}



usepackage{palatino} 

usepackage[T1]{fontenc} 

usepackage{ucs} 

usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} 

usepackage{babel}

usepackage{eurosym} 



usepackage{geometry} 

usepackage{graphicx} 



usepackage{setspace} 

usepackage{lipsum}



geometry{verbose,a4paper,lmargin=3cm,rmargin=3cm}



setlengthparskip{medskipamount} 

setlengthparindent{0pt}



setstretch{1.15}

LoadLetterOption{NF}%



KOMAoptions{% 

   fromalign=left% alignment of the address

  ,fromphone=true% print sender phone number

  ,fromemail=true% print sender e-mail address

  ,fromlogo=true% print a logo (position depends on fromalign) 

}



%setkomavar{date}{le today}

setkomafont{backaddress}{rmfamily} 

setkomafont{fromaddress}{small} 

setkomafont{fromname}{scshape} 

setkomavar{backaddressseparator}{ $cdot$ } 

setkomavar{backaddress}{}



setkomavar{emailseparator}{~:~} 

setkomavar{enclseparator}{ > } 

setkomavar{fromaddress}{7-13 rue dejourney 49000 ANGERS} 

setkomavar{fromemail}{gigiair@gigiair.fr} 

setkomavar{fromname}{Gigiair} 

setkomavar{fromphone}{0123 456 789} 

setkomavar{phoneseparator}{~:~} 

%setkomavar{place}{Angers} % <=========================================

date{} % <============================================================

setkomavar{signature}{qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad qquad quad quad includegraphics[width=2.5cm]{example-image}} 

setkomavar{subjectseparator}{ >>> } 

setkomavar{subject}{Modèle}



setkomavar{firsthead}{% <==============================================

  begin{tabular}[t]{l@{}}%

    usekomavar{fromname}\

    usekomavar*{fromphone}usekomavar{fromphone}\

    usekomavar*{fromemail}usekomavar{fromemail}

  end{tabular}

  hfill

  normalsize

  Angers, le today % <=================================================

}



LoadLetterOption{visualize} % <========================================

showfields{head,address,location,refline,foot} % <=====================





begin{document}



begin{letter}{`A Madame la centurion Camps de Babaurum Bretagne conquise} 

defconcname{Objet :~}

opening{Madame la centurion,} 

C'est une invitation pour manger du sanglier roti. 

closing{à la tienne !}

cc{Panoramix et Obleix} 

end{letter} 

end{document}

and its result:

Please see that the call of LoadLetterOption{visualize} activates the tool of scrarttl2 to visualize special fields, named in showfields{head,address,location,refline,foot}.

If that is a real standard format for french letters, please contact the maintainer of KOMA-Script at https://komascript.de/ (you can write in english) and ask for a feature request to realize this french letter format via pur lco file ...