The scrlttr2 signature position with KOMA-Script pseudolength sigindent?
Your calculation -\useplength{refhpos}+\useplength{toaddhpos}
does not result in a value, that moves the signature to the middle of the text area.
In your example the value of refhpos
is 0pt and the value of toaddrhpos
is -10mm (given by NF.lco
). Your
\@setplength{sigindent}{-\useplength{refhpos}+\useplength{toaddrhpos}}
(I've remove one }
, which was to much), would result in a sigindent
of -10mm. This would result in a position 10mm left to the left edge of the text area. So it is not what you want.
The image you've linked (which is figure 22.1 of the current KOMA-Script manual), is about address fields at the left side. You are using an address field on the right side. So toaddrhpos
is the distance from the right paper edge to the right address field edge. It is negative (as told above). The refhpos
has nothing to do with the position of the address field.
Please have a look into table 22.1 in part II of the KOMA-Script manual and into the descriptions of the pseudo length in section 22.1 to see, how the values of toaddhpos
, refhpos
and sigindent
are interpreted by scrlttr2
.
You may try something like:
\setplength{sigindent}{.5\textwidth}
Or a more complicate but correct calculation:
\setplength{sigindent}{\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}-\useplength{toaddrwidth}+\useplength{toaddrindent}-\oddsidemargin-1in}
Note: This does only work for toaddrhpos
< 0.
\paperwidth+\useplenth{toaddrhpos}
is the position of the right edge of the address field relative to the left edge of the paper. Subtracting \useplength{toaddrwidth}
results in the left edge of the address field relative to the left edge of the paper. Adding \useplength{toaddrindent}
results in the left edge of the address relative to the left edge of the paper. But sigindent
is relative to the left edge of the text area not the paper. So we have to subtract the left margin, which is (in oneside documents for all pages) \oddsidemargin+1in
.
Note: Since KOMA-Script 3.26 \setplength
instead of \@setplength
is recommended. \@setplength
is an internal command now. You should not longer use it. If you are using an outdated KOMA-Script release you still have to use \@setplength
. But in this case also expressions in the second argument would not be allowed. So you would have to use:
\makeatletter
\@setplength{sigindent}{\dimexpr\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}-\useplength{toaddrwidth}+\useplength{toaddrindent}-\oddsidemargin-1in\relax}
\makeatother
or split the calculation into several \@addtoplength
.
Here is an example (using KOMA-Script >= 3.26), that illustrates the calculation:
\documentclass[%
paper=a4,
fontsize=11pt,
french,
]{scrlttr2}[2018/12/22]% for KOMA-Script < v3.26 see the note about \setplengt` above
\usepackage{eso-pic,picture,xcolor}% for demonstration only
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{hyperref}
%\LoadLetterOption{visualize}
%\showfields{head,foot,address,location,refline}
\LoadLetterOption{NF}
\renewcaptionname{french}{\subjectname}{Objet}
\renewcaptionname{french}{\ccname}{C.c.}
\KOMAoptions{
,foldmarks=false
,refline=nodate
,subject=titled
,fromemail=false
,fromlogo=false
,fromphone=false
,fromurl=false
,backaddress=false
,foldmarks=false
}
% from name
\setkomavar{fromname}{Chef Abraracoursix}
\setkomafont{fromname}{\scshape}
\setkomavar{signature}{\noindent Chef Abraracoursix,\\Un chef à toujours bras long.}
\setplength{sigindent}{\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}-\useplength{toaddrwidth}+\useplength{toaddrindent}-\oddsidemargin-1in}
% Show the calculation (for demonstration only)
\AddToShipoutPicture{%
\AtPageUpperLeft{%
\color{red}%
\footnotesize
\put(0,-\useplength{toaddrvpos}){%
\vector(1,0){\dimexpr\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}\relax}%
}%
\put(0,-\useplength{toaddrvpos}){%
\makebox(\dimexpr\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}\relax,\ht\strutbox)[cb]{\ttfamily\detokenize{\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}}}%
}%
\color{red!80!blue!80}%
\put(\dimexpr\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}\relax,-\dimexpr\useplength{toaddrvpos}+\ht\strutbox\relax){%
\vector(-1,0){\useplength{toaddrwidth}}%
}%
\put(\dimexpr\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}-\useplength{toaddrwidth}\relax,-\dimexpr\useplength{toaddrvpos}+\ht\strutbox\relax){%
\makebox(\useplength{toaddrwidth},\ht\strutbox)[cb]{\ttfamily\detokenize{\useplength{toaddrwidth}}}%
}%
\color{red!60!blue!60}%
\put(\dimexpr\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}-\useplength{toaddrwidth}\relax,-\dimexpr\useplength{toaddrvpos}+\ht\strutbox*2\relax){%
\vector(1,0){\useplength{toaddrindent}}%
}%
\put(\dimexpr\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}-\useplength{toaddrwidth}\relax,-\dimexpr\useplength{toaddrvpos}+\ht\strutbox*2\relax){%
\makebox(\useplength{toaddrindent},\ht\strutbox){%
\ttfamily\detokenize{\useplength{toaddrindent}}%
}%
}%
\color{green}%
\put(\dimexpr\oddsidemargin+1in\relax,
-\dimexpr\useplength{toaddrvpos}+2cm\relax){%
\vector(1,0){%
\dimexpr\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}-\useplength{toaddrwidth}+\useplength{toaddrindent}-\oddsidemargin-1in\relax
}%
}%
\put(\dimexpr\oddsidemargin+1in\relax,
-\dimexpr\useplength{toaddrvpos}+2cm\relax){%
\makebox(\dimexpr\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}-\useplength{toaddrwidth}+\useplength{toaddrindent}-\oddsidemargin-1in\relax,\ht\strutbox)[lb]{%
\detokenize{\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}-\useplength{toaddrwidth}+\useplength{toaddrindent}-\oddsidemargin-1in}%
}%
}%
\color{blue}%
\put(\dimexpr\paperwidth+\useplength{toaddrhpos}-\useplength{toaddrwidth}+\useplength{toaddrindent}\relax,0){%
\line(0,-1){\paperheight}%
}%
}%
}
% from adress
\setkomavar{fromaddress}{Place du village,\\Erqy,\\Armorique}
\setkomafont{fromaddress}{\small}
% place and location
\setkomavar{place}{Erqy}
\setkomavar{placeseparator}{, le }
% other komavar
\setkomavar{ccseparator}{}
\setkomavar*{ccseparator}{\llap{\ccname\quad}}
\date{\today}
% firsthead
\setkomavar{firsthead}{%
\usekomafont{fromaddress}%
\parbox[b]{\useplength{firstheadwidth}}{%
{\usekomafont{fromname}\usekomavar{fromname}}%
\hfill{%
\usekomafont{placeanddate}%
\ifkomavarempty{place}{}{\usekomavar{place}\usekomavar{placeseparator}}
\usekomavar{date}
}%
\\\usekomavar{fromaddress}%
\medskip
\if@phone\\\usekomavar*{fromphone}\usekomavar{fromphone}\fi%
\if@mobilephone\\\usekomavar*{frommobilephone}\usekomavar{frommobilephone}\fi%
\if@fax\\\usekomavar*{fromfax}\usekomavar{fromfax}\fi%
\if@email\\\usekomavar*{fromemail}\usekomavar{fromemail}\fi%
\if@www\\\usekomavar*{fromurl}\usekomavar{fromurl}\fi%
}%
}
\renewcommand*{\raggedsignature}{\raggedright}
\hypersetup{%
pdfauthor={Chef Abraracoursix},
pdftitle={Invitation pour une banquet au sanglier Roti},
pdfcreator={Emacs 26.1 (Org mode 9.1.9)},
pdflang={French}
}
\begin{document}
\setkomavar{subject}{Invitation pour une banquet au sanglier Roti}
\begin{letter}{%
Capitaine Paulus Romanicus\\
Camp de Babaorum
Bretany}
\opening{Le Romain,}
Dans le cadre des rapports de bon voisinage et de notre hospitalité
légendaire, nous vous invitons à festoyer avec nous sous le grand chêne,
du coucher du soleil à l'aube, à la prochaine plein lune pour le mariage
de la belle Fabala et de vigourix.
\closing{À la tienne !}
\end{letter}
\end{document}
Note, there were several other issues with your code:
\usepackage[francais]{babel}
is deprecated. Current babel
warns:
Package francais.ldf Warning: Option `francais' for Babel is *deprecated*, (francais.ldf) it might be removed sooner or later. Please (francais.ldf) use `french' instead; reported on input line 31.
\KOMAoption{ ,foldmarks=false ,refline=nodate ,subject=titled ,fromemail=false ,fromlogo=false ,fromphone=false ,fromurl=false ,backaddress=false ,foldmarks=false }
is wrong. \KOMAoption
has two arguments. The first one is an option key, the second is a list of option values.
To help users to find out what's wrong, the current prerelease of KOMA-Script shows the following error message with your wrong usage of \KOMAoption
:
./test.tex:28: Package scrbase Error: syntax error in key ` ,foldmarks=false ,r efline=nodate ,subject=titled ,fromemail=false ,fromlogo=false ,fromphone=false ,fromurl=false ,backaddress=false ,foldmarks=false '. See the scrbase package documentation for explanation. Type H <return> for immediate help. ... l.28 } You've used `\...Option' to set the key ` ,foldmarks=false ,refline=nodate ,sub ject=titled ,fromemail=false ,fromlogo=false ,fromphone=false ,fromurl=false ,b ackaddress=false ,foldmarks=false ' to new value(s), but `,' is not allowed in the key of an option (and `\...Option' does not use `,' to separate several keys). Maybe you've meant \...Options instead of \...Option. If you'll continue, I'll give it a try, but you should expect further and even strange error messages.
As the help text of the error message explains:
\KOMAoptions{
,foldmarks=false
,refline=nodate
,subject=titled
,fromemail=false
,fromlogo=false
,fromphone=false
,fromurl=false
,backaddress=false
,foldmarks=false
}
would be correct.
Your definition of firsthead
adds several significant but unwanted white spaces. See What is the use of percent signs (%) at the end of lines? for more information how to avoid them.
There is also a warning message about usage of \date
:
Class scrlttr2 Warning: \date changes the internal \LaTeX date only. (scrlttr2) You should note that this changes the default (scrlttr2) value of variable `date' only as long as someone (scrlttr2) uses `\setkomavar` to change the content of (scrlttr2) variable `date'. (scrlttr2) Therefore, usage of `\setkomavar' is recommended (scrlttr2) to change the letter's date on input line 59.
So for scrlttr2
you should use
\setkomavar{date}{\today}
or just remove it, because \today
is already the default.
Last but not least, you have a
makeatletter
instead of
\makeatletter
in your document preamble.
My suggestion is the same as in the answer of @Schweinebacke. But it is too long for a comment ... maybe the following helps to understand why refhpos
is completely wrong in the calculation of the desired indent of the signature, ie the pseudolength sigindent
.
First of all: Do not just look at the pseudolength-image in the documentation, but read the descriptions of all pseudolengths carefully. By default some of them are set to special values, eg. 0pt
. Then the positions of these letter elements are calculated and used in a group during the excecution of \opening
. The rules for these calculations are described in the documentation.
Note that pseudolength refhpos
is not the distance between the left edge of the paper and the letter body! It only determines the horizontal position of the reference line if the pseudolengths refwidth
is not zero. But refwidth
is typically set to 0pt
, eg in the NF.lco. With this special value the lengths and the position of the reference line depend only on option refline
and its values narrow
(default) or wide
.
Examples:
\documentclass{scrlttr2}
\usepackage{blindtext}% dummy text
\LoadLetterOption{visualize}\showfields{address,location,refline}% visualize position of addresse and refline
%\KOMAoptions{refline=wide}% uncomment for the 2.image, default is refline=narrow
\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{recipient\\address}
\opening{Hello}
Pseudolength \texttt{refwidth} is set to \textbf{\the\useplength{refwidth}},
pseudolength \texttt{refhpos} is set to \textbf{\the\useplength{refhpos}} and
pseudolength \texttt{sigindent} is set to \textbf{\the\useplength{sigindent}}.
\par\bigskip
\blindtext
\closing{Bye}
\end{letter}
\end{document}
Result with default refline
settings (refline=narrow
):
Result with refline=wide
(uncomment the line in the code above):
If you set refhpos
to a different value, the layout will not change:
\setplength{refhpos}{10pt}
Result with default refline=narrow
(see the first example):
Note that only the value in the text has changed.
But if you set pseudolength refwidth
to a nonzero value, e.g.
\setplength{refwidth}{\textwidth}
you get
or with
\setplength{refhpos}{10pt}
\setplength{refwidth}{\textwidth}
Note that this behavior is described in the KOMA-Script documentation.
To align the signature with the addresse, we have to add the pseudolengths toaddrhpos
and toaddrindent
and to subtract the left margin (=\oddsidemargin+1pt
):
\documentclass{scrlttr2}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\LoadLetterOption{visualize}\showfields{address,location,refline}% visualize position of addresse and refline
\renewcommand\raggedsignature{\raggedright}% % signature should be raggedright as in NF.lco
\setkomavar{signature}{\color{red}\smash{\rule[-\paperheight]{.4pt}{2\paperheight}}}% to show the left margin of the signature
%\setplength{toaddrhpos}{100pt}
\setplength{sigindent}{
\useplength{toaddrhpos}+\useplength{toaddrindent}
-\oddsidemargin-1in% remove left margin
}
\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{recipient\\address}
\opening{Hello}
Pseudolength \texttt{refhpos} is set to \textbf{\the\useplength{refhpos}},
pseudolength \texttt{toaddrhpos} is set to \textbf{\the\useplength{toaddrhpos}},
pseudolength \texttt{toaddrindent} is set to \textbf{\the\useplength{toaddrindent}} and
pseudolength \texttt{sigindent} is set to \textbf{\the\useplength{sigindent}}.
\closing{Bye}
\end{letter}
\end{document}
Result:
and if you set toaddrhpos
to 100pt (uncomment the line in the code above):
If you set toaddrhpos
to the width of the left margin
\setplength{toaddrhpos}{\oddsidemargin+1in}
you get
Loading NF.lco the value of toaddrhpos
get negative. A negative value means thattoaddrhpos
is the distance from the right edge of the address field
to the right edge of the paper. Therefore we have to add \paperwidth
and subtract the width of the address field (toaddrwidth
):
\documentclass{scrlttr2}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\LoadLetterOption{visualize}\showfields{address,location,refline}% visualize position of addresse and refline
\setkomavar{signature}{\color{red}\smash{\rule[-\paperheight]{.4pt}{2\paperheight}}}% to show the left margin of the signature
\LoadLetterOption{NF}
\setplength{sigindent}{
\useplength{toaddrhpos}+\useplength{toaddrindent}
-\oddsidemargin-1in
}
\ifdim\useplength{toaddrhpos}<0pt
\addtoplength{sigindent}{\paperwidth-\useplength{toaddrwidth}}
\fi
\begin{document}
\begin{letter}{recipient\\address}
\opening{Hello}
Pseudolength \texttt{refhpos} is set to \textbf{\the\useplength{refhpos}},
pseudolength \texttt{toaddrhpos} is set to \textbf{\the\useplength{toaddrhpos}},
pseudolength \texttt{toaddrindent} is set to \textbf{\the\useplength{toaddrindent}} and
pseudolength \texttt{sigindent} is set to \textbf{\the\useplength{sigindent}}.
\closing{Bye}
\end{letter}
\end{document}
Result:
See also the image in the answer of @Schweinebacke.
You can change toaddrhpos
before the calculation of sigindent
, eg
\setplength{toaddrhpos}{-100pt}
Result:
So I would suggest the same as @Schweineback in his answer:
With an uptodate KOMA-Script Version (at least 3.26):
\setplength{sigindent}{
\useplength{toaddrhpos}+\useplength{toaddrindent}
-\oddsidemargin-1in
}
\ifdim\useplength{toaddrhpos}<0pt
\addtoplength{sigindent}{\paperwidth-\useplength{toaddrwidth}}
\fi
or with older versions:
\makeatletter
\@setplength{sigindent}{\dimexpr
\useplength{toaddrhpos}+\useplength{toaddrindent}
-\oddsidemargin-1in
\relax}
\ifdim\useplength{toaddrhpos}<0pt
\@addtoplength{sigindent}{\dimexpr\paperwidth-\useplength{toaddrwidth}\relax}
\fi
\makeatother