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Re: Markdown Resumé

#11

Post by brianobush » Mon, Oct 15, 2012, 1:24 AM UTC

Seems that services like LinkedIn have made self-formatting your resume a thing of the past?

Re: Markdown Resumé

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Post by amccloud » Mon, Oct 15, 2012, 1:44 AM UTC

Doh! Wish I had saw this yesterday. Just started work on my resume that has a similar style. http://resume.amccloud.com/

Re: Markdown Resumé

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Post by dfc » Mon, Oct 15, 2012, 3:37 AM UTC

spencerhakim wrote: post #7

I converted my resume to markdown earlier this year, but I've just been using OS X's Print To PDF feature for conversion from HTML to PDF. How does the quality from Pandoc compare?

Pandoc does not do the typesetting, Latex does. So if you like latex, you will like the pdf output. Respectfully, to others who have commented on html->pdf, html does not compare to latex typesetting.

I'm hoping to be able to contribute some latex tweaks later this week to the pandoc template.

Re: Markdown Resumé

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Post by dfc » Mon, Oct 15, 2012, 3:38 AM UTC

tomrod wrote: post #4

Very cool! This is my first exposure to markdown. I could see convergence of this and latex, surely.

Pandoc is the convergence...

Re: Markdown Resumé

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 15, 2012, 7:45 AM UTC

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Re: Markdown Resumé

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Post by gngrwzrd » Mon, Oct 15, 2012, 7:48 AM UTC

Pretty cool. If you're on Mac OS X you can use the POD format for perl documentation and use the already built-in command "pod2html." Then use print to pdf. Done - with no extra dependencies or installs.

Re: Markdown Resumé

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Post by tomrod » Mon, Oct 15, 2012, 2:51 PM UTC

dfc wrote: post #14

tomrod wrote: post #4

Very cool! This is my first exposure to markdown. I could see convergence of this and latex, surely.

Pandoc is the convergence...

Go on! From my admittedly brief reading after seeing this item, it appears Pandoc still suffers from a lot of compatibility issues?

Re: Markdown Resumé

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Post by dfc » Mon, Oct 15, 2012, 5:12 PM UTC

tomrod wrote: post #17

dfc wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pandoc is the convergence...

Go on! From my admittedly brief reading after seeing this item, it appears Pandoc still suffers from a lot of compatibility issues?

Not in my experience. I think the compatibility problems you have read about may be for formats that have been recently added. markdown to supported formats works flawlessly in my opinion. Most of the problems arise when trying to import other formats to markdown.

Pandoc's extensions to markdown are a sufficient reason to be a pandoc fanboy in my opinion. JGM (fiddlosopher here on HN) is a great person to be in charge of a project. He is very responsive to questions/problems and seems to be interested in supporting pandoc behind his personal use cases.

Re: Markdown Resumé

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Post by gngrwzrd » Mon, Oct 15, 2012, 7:01 PM UTC

brianobush wrote: post #11

Seems that services like LinkedIn have made self-formatting your resume a thing of the past?

I would agree but most recruiting services and even employers still require resumes in pdf, or worse yet, .doc format. Yuck!