The date being what it is, I was expecting a résumé printed on Latex 'paper' ... or something.
Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
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Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#22The date being what it is, I was expecting a résumé printed on Latex 'paper' ... or something.
lol. maybe I should have postponed posting it till tmrw :)
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#23It 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.
I don't understand what it is about Palatino that people find attractive; it looks ugly as shit to me. I've cycled through most of the fonts available in LaTeX (and beyond, with XeTeX), and always end up reverting back to lmodern.
I guess it is a matter of taste.
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Here is mine: http://o1iver.net/cv.pdf (code at https://github.com/o1iver/CV).
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#25While 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 bu…
LaTeX is a markup language like HTML and CSS, I'm confused as to what you think it is. Looks like any other LaTeX doc I've seen.
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#26While 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 bu…
HTML+CSS would provide a fantastic way to view a resume on a web page. However, a resume is more usually forwarded around multiple times via email and then finally printed for a review.
HTML+CSS offers little to no control of how a page would look like once its printed. LaTeX on the other hand, can be optimized with printable fonts, appropriate margins and such like. A PDF with embedded fonts would guarantee that the page would look the same, printed with any computer/OS/printer combination.
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#27Comments -- 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…
wow.. never heard of the microtype package.
look very nice, will be playing with this for sure.
thanks!
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
> I find the githup version too much squeezed down and "wordy"
It's up to the author how much words here uses. I use the summary on top, which totally optional.. Looking that the coe you can see that everything is simply Latex, therefor easy to modify.
The level-squeezedness is part of this design, if you don't like that then I guess it's better to look further.
Maybe it easy to squeeze the CVtex template a little.
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#29I also have my resume in LaTeX on GitHub :)
https://github.com/dan2k3k4/CV-Resume-in-LaTeX
Though looking through yours, I'll need to take some time and clean up my code :)
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#30A while back I had set out to solve the "multiple resume problem" where you generate resumes in different format(html,pdf,plain text etc.) from a single source. This way all your resumes are consistent. I haven't solved it completely yet but you can find the github repository of "modern resume" over at https://github.com/dhawalhshah/modern-resume. I am using it at http://www.dhawal.me/