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Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project

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Post by cies »

anghyflawn wrote: post #38
cies wrote: post #2

Comments -- on both the Latex code and the content of my resume -- are very welcome!

I would say you need a somewhat cleaner approach to placing things on the page. For instance, two paragraph breaks in a row are very non-idiomatic: try \vspace{2\baselineskip} instead. Instead of manually putting a hard space after punctuation, you probably want \frenchspacing. Also, using \sloppy as the default option is terrible. The purpose of \sloppy is to save a really bad paragraph that cannot be rewritten. Vis…

Thanks a lot for the valuable insights.

Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project

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Post by dhawalhs »

ahcox wrote: post #37
dhawalhs wrote: post #30

A 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/

The CurVe class supports multiple versions of a CV with its "flavors" concept: http://text-ex-machina.co.uk/blog/creating-curriculum-vit I keep all versions of my CV side by side in directories checked in to subversion and copy the closest existing one to make a new version rather than trying to maintain multiple different flavours of CV at the same time.

Thanks! I will take a look. Another goal was to reduce the barrier to entry. I wanted it to be easy to use even for non developers or non technical people. That's why I was trying to build it purely in html/css/javascript and without any backend support. Modify resume.json and upload the files to any webhost and you have your portlio site up.

Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project

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Post by ajray »

njs12345 wrote: post #12

Dario 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).

Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project

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Post by dunham »

dhawalhs wrote: post #30

A 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/

I also did this a while back (maybe 10 years ago). I started with an XML document and transformed to HTML and TeX via XSLT. I generated PDF using TeX and a plain text version from the HTML using "links -dump".

If I were to wrote it again today, I'd probably be more likely to start with something like yaml and write a quick python script to generate the TeX and HTML. (My TeX is rusty, but it does a good job setting type. A non-TeX alternative would be XSL-FO + FOP.)

Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project

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Post by wahnfrieden »

gnok wrote: post #26
Corrado wrote: post #20

While 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…

Mostly irrelevant since you can just as easily export a web page to PDF.

Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project

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Post by wahnfrieden »

cies wrote: post #40
ahcox wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This part of the CV looks like a cross between a covering letter and a profile/summary to me. It seems too long and it repeats information that is present elsewhere in the CV. I would shorten it and use it to get your main message across to the person scanning it at high speed. Sorry to post my own latex-generated CV twice in one thread, but for ease of reference, this is what I mean: http://www.hoogli.com/Andrew_Cox…

Thanks for the tips.. > Sorry to post my own latex-generated CV twice in one thread No worries. :)

I would also leave out the personal history of how you first started using computers, particularly as the first couple lines of your resume. It's the first thing I read and while it's a nice story it's not really relevant.

Re: Show HN: my "My Latex resume" project

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Post by cies »

laxatives wrote: post #47

I used Matthew Boedicker/Derek Hildreth's template. Would love to hear your constructive criticism. https://docs.google.com/open?id=1zoOILbnhyZ0YnnI8Ur9ufEZbEin...

Looks nice. +1 for only one page :)

2 things:

* the bullets, are they necessary? * same for the grey backgrounds * it seems not to be lining up on the right.. intentional?

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