Comments -- on both the Latex code and the content of my resume -- are very welcome!
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#12Dario Taraborelli's 'Typesetting your academic CV in LaTeX' is also a good resource (works just fine for a normal CV as well): http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex
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#14Dario Taraborelli's 'Typesetting your academic CV in LaTeX' is also a good resource (works just fine for a normal CV as well): http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex
This is one of the tools I evaluated, before I decided to make my own. Look at the differences:
https://github.com/cies/resume/blob/master/cies-breijs-resum...
I think CVtex uses far too much whitespace, in his case yielding a whopping 7-page resume.
But luckily tastes differ :)
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#15It looks very nice, but I'm genuinely curious as to why someone would go to the trouble of TeXing up a document and choose to use anything other than the standard Computer Modern font. Is it purely a matter of taste?
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#16It looks very nice, but I'm genuinely curious as to why someone would go to the trouble of TeXing up a document and choose to use anything other than the standard Computer Modern font. Is it purely a matter of taste?
Yuk, that font look horrendous...
> Is it purely a matter of taste?
I'd like to believe otherwise, but you are probably right. :)
It's pretty easy to change fonts, I include one example for Linux Libertine in the code.
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#17Dario Taraborelli's 'Typesetting your academic CV in LaTeX' is also a good resource (works just fine for a normal CV as well): http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex
This is one of the tools I evaluated, before I decided to make my own. Look at the differences: http://nitens.org/cv/cv.pdf https://github.com/cies/resume/blob/master/cies-breijs-resum... I think CVtex uses far too much whitespace, in his case yielding a whopping 7-page resume. But luckily tastes differ :)
Would love to see more variations on that. My own CV looks very similar to the CVtex version but the length becomes quite a problem - on the other hand I find the githup version too much squeezed down and "wordy". Any other alternatives?
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#18Dario Taraborelli's 'Typesetting your academic CV in LaTeX' is also a good resource (works just fine for a normal CV as well): http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex
This is one of the tools I evaluated, before I decided to make my own. Look at the differences: http://nitens.org/cv/cv.pdf https://github.com/cies/resume/blob/master/cies-breijs-resum... I think CVtex uses far too much whitespace, in his case yielding a whopping 7-page resume. But luckily tastes differ :)
They do—yours looks unreadably compressed to me.
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#19Comments -- on both the Latex code and the content of my resume -- are very welcome!
What about the use of microtypography?
I think that you'd get optically cleaner margins (on the right) by using the microtype package. \usepackage{microtype} just works, though you could feed it \usepackage[expansion,protrusion]{microtype}. Since you have the \ifxetex switch and since XeTeX doesn't support expansion yet, you'd have to throw a \usepackage[protrusion]{microtype} in there, given that you have the XeTeX-microtype-package installed.
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#20While I appreciate the work you've done, it looks to me like you could have saved quite a bit of time and if you had created your resume in HTML+CSS. In fact, it looks quite a bit like HTML5 already with proper sections and such.
My understanding of LaTeX (which is surely lacking) is that one creates the content and the engine turns that into a document. However, it looks as though you not only created the content but also extensive rules on how to display it. This feels much more like HTML+CSS-like than a LaTeX script.
Can someone help me understand why this particular example of LaTeX is a good thing? Am I wrong in my analysis?