This is all very nice, but a surprisingly large number of recruitment agencies still demand CVs in word format.
Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
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Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#52While 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…
What makes you say that? Mine is HTML/CSS -- http://buu700.com/cv.pdf -- and it seems to be pretty consistent. If anything, I would argue that the fine-grained formatting control you can get with HTML/CSS is basically unsurpassed, especially with rendering tools like wkhtmltopdf available.
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
One of the most impressive things about the package really is that it "just works". And especially protrusion is wonderful in my opinion, since it really makes nicer margins.
Glad you like it!
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#54Latex: The fetish thing. LaTeX: The typesetting / document preparation system and markup language. Pronounced: /ˈlɑːtɛk/ Just to throw in some facts :-)
Yeah, I feel like I've tainted my work computer's browser history. :)
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#55Some self promoting here, but this is my html resume project based on Jason Blevins' CV Latex template. I am using Prince, but printing from the browser gives a nice result too.
https://github.com/chucklarge/html-resume-template
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Mostly irrelevant since you can just as easily export a web page to PDF.
There is a world of difference between a proper typesetting engine (such as LaTeX) and HTML-to-PDF. Box layout, hyphenation, ligatures - the list goes on. Of course, optimizing the typography in your resume is likely unnecessary. But that doesn't make the difference go away.
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#57Dario 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
That was part of the inspiration for mine, https://github.com/machinaut/XeTeX-Resume/blob/master/modern... (the github repo has all of the source). Dario Taraborelli's other articles are the reason I use XeTeX instead of LaTeX. It's a good format, and I like having a bit of color in mine (and the QR code is just a bit of nerd-edgy).
Just my opinion but there is nothing edgy about a QR code...
More generally what is the point of a QR code on a resume anyway?
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#58While 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…
A latex script? I think your analysis is missing a general understanding of the benefits of latex and how the process works.
On another not maybe you are assuming the resume is for screen display only?
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
What makes you say that? Mine is HTML/CSS -- http://buu700.com/cv.pdf -- and it seems to be pretty consistent. If anything, I would argue that the fine-grained formatting control you can get with HTML/CSS is basically unsurpassed, especially with rendering tools like wkhtmltopdf available.
"I would argue that the fine-grained formatting control you can get with HTML/CSS is basically unsurpassed, especially with rendering tools like wkhtmltopdf available."
Best April Fools Day joke ever...
Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project
#60Comments -- 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…
Does microtype do anything constructive with sloppy on?