Font

[davidbaniadam]

Hi, Thanks for the package. How can I change the font.. it does not seem to be working? And the return-addressshow double. How can only keep the upper-left one?

[rnuske]

Hi David, I regarded the font to be a fundamental part of the layout and as such hardcoded it in the default layout maintainersDelight.lco. Meaning, a different choice of fonts requires a custom .lco-file. One could copy the maintainersDelight.lco into the working directory, adapt to one's own taste and reference the custom style-file it with the YAML parameter lco in the heading of the letter.

Looking into the template used by pandoc I recognized that rmarkdown usually seems to offer the possibility to change the font. I have to think about if and how komaletter should support these parameters.

Could you please post a minimal reproducible example showing which YAML header parameters you want to use.

[rnuske]

Could you please open a separate issue for the trouble with the return-address containing a minimal reproducible example.

[davidbaniadam]

Hi thanks for the response. People like the design with return-address so I think I just keep it the way it is. So if you want you can just close the issue. And I think the font is good too now. Again thanks for the package! All the best

[rnuske]

Things I learned while searching for a way to change the font:

• The default lco-settings (maintainerDelight.lco) overwrites font choices done elsewhere because it is loaded later than the options set via YAML and the template.tex.
• I could not find a way to make loading of fonts conditional in default lco maintainerDelight.lco.
  • The lco does not know about YAML parameters. All pandoc magic is already done when the lco comes into play.
  • Conditioning in LaTeX using e.g. \usepackage{ifthen} does not work because there is no easy way to detect whether a custom font was set. Font setting looks very different depending on the YAML parameter given by the user e.g. setting fonts via tex-packages or xelatex and fontspec. Maybe set a flag if a custom font is set?

Hacks / Workarounds:

• an "easy" way out is using a different lco-file, e.g.
  • one of the standard lco lco: DIN (this allows for setting fonts via YAML parameter fontfamily, e.g. lco: DIN together with fontfamily: arev) [1]
  • or a personal custom lco with a hardcoded favorite font
• another handy hack would be to overide the font definition in default lco-settings maintainerDelight.lco) by changing the fontselection method to fontspec which requires xelatex. A sans font has to be provided because maintainerDelight.lco makes sans font the documents default font, e.g. use latex_engine: xelatex together with sansfont: Arial [2]

[1]

---
author: Max Mustermann
return-address: [Musterstr. 12, 34567 Musterstadt]
address: [Dirk Eddelbuettel, 123 Street Rd, Chicago, IL]

lco: DIN   
fontfamily: arev

output:  komaletter::komaletter
---

[2]

---
author: Max Mustermann
return-address: [Musterstr. 12, 34567 Musterstadt]
address: [Dirk Eddelbuettel, 123 Street Rd, Chicago, IL]

sansfont: Optima

output: 
  komaletter::komaletter:
    latex_engine: xelatex
---

[rnuske]

To conclude, I would appreciate suggestions on how to set a font in the default lco that can be overridden by YAML settings.