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It 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?
"The value of latex can only be realized when using computer modern."
Or
"Computer modern is the best font for every type of text in every document."
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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...
Here is a copy of it on sharelatex.com - https://www.sharelatex.com/project/4f78ebb84bae4a991a00015e
Latex: The fetish thing. LaTeX: The typesetting / document preparation system and markup language. Pronounced: /ˈlɑːtɛk/ Just to throw in some facts :-)
This is all very nice, but a surprisingly large number of recruitment agencies still demand CVs in word format.
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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.
It 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?
Are you serious? I'm not sure what I disagree with more: "The value of latex can only be realized when using computer modern." Or "Computer modern is the best font for every type of text in every document."
I was interested, asked a question, received an answer, and have since moved on.
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"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...
Okay, I'll bite. What can you not easily do (which one would reasonably do in a resume/CV) in terms of formatting, layout, typography, and so on using HTML/CSS(/Bootstrap?)/wkhtmltopdf?
Typography? Seriously? In the context of a resume I would gloss over typography but you mentioned it explicitly. Html/css does not play on the same level as text when it comes to kerning, ligatures, letter spacing, expansion/protrusion, etc. Can you do any of the things microtype does with CSS? Searching the issues of wkhtmlpdf lists 50 something issues with fonts. All of these are no brainers with latex. Wkhtmlpdf does not like negative letter spacing! That's something that my mom does with ms word to squeeze a little more text somewhere without a new line or margin change / page break. How does css/html handle the period after Dr. versus the end of a sentence? Multilingual resumes with different spacing requirements for different languages? Ie what is html/css method for \frenchspacing? Does html/css provide language aware layout decisions like babel/pollyglossia? Line breaking and hyphenation are notoriously horrible with html/css.
Can you easily reference your bibtex CV and include a list of your publications in html/css? A list of publications is a must for academic/research jobs. Can you easily change the reference format if you decide to pivot to a new industry that expects a different style than your previous industry?
Easily compute lengths of strings on the fly to use a consistent indent? Ie so that your city column consistently shows up in the same place after you include a new job with a date string that is longer than previous jobs. One of the default cv packages on CTAN can draw lines of different lengths depending on how long you were in a position. How do you do date calculations in html/css? Can you then take the length of date and do calculations relative to the margin/font/line hight? (I think its moderncv) I don't need any units in my resume but I bet a lot of fields have a need to use units in accomplishment descriptions in their resumes. What is the html/css equivalent of siunits?
How does html/css handle page breaks? What is the css/html equivalent of widow/orphan control? When a resume with a list of long publications goes many pages how does wkhtmlpdf update headers/footers that reference page numbers and section titles? Can it use a different header footer on pages 2+?
More generally would you recommend printing a book with html/css? And if not what publishing/document layout features do you think are relevant to a book but not resumes? If you are such a fan of wkhtmlpdf why did you use itext for your resume?
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Okay, I'll bite. What can you not easily do (which one would reasonably do in a resume/CV) in terms of formatting, layout, typography, and so on using HTML/CSS(/Bootstrap?)/wkhtmltopdf?
The joke is less funny when you change the punchline and restrict it to resumes only but its still pretty funny. Typography? Seriously? In the context of a resume I would gloss over typography but you mentioned it explicitly. Html/css does not play on the same level as text when it comes to kerning, ligatures, letter spacing, expansion/protrusion, etc. Can you do any of the things microtype does with CSS? Searching t…
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_letter-spacing.asp
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>ligatures
@font-face supports this.
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>expansion/protrusion
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_hanging-punctuation....
(Simple workaround for browsers without support: http://csshowto.com/typography/hanging-punctuation-with-css/)
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>Searching the issues of wkhtmlpdf lists 50 something issues with fonts.
I don't know what you're referring to specifically, but I've never had a problem.
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>Wkhtmlpdf does not like negative letter spacing!
Works perfectly for me, but as always when using a rendering tool like wkhtmltopdf you need to be careful and precise with your page size and DPI settings if you want predictable results.
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>How does css/html handle the period after Dr. versus the end of a sentence?
Probably the same by default, unless you specify an alternate behaviour.
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>Ie what is html/css method for \frenchspacing?
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_text_word-spacing.asp
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>Does html/css provide language aware layout decisions like babel/pollyglossia?
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_lang.asp
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>Line breaking and hyphenation are notoriously horrible with html/css.
[Citation needed]
If CSS hyphenation in a particular browser doesn't work well, you can always try a JS library like this one: http://code.google.com/p/hyphenator/ (wkhtmltopdf supports JavaScript execution).
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>Can you easily reference your bibtex CV and include a list of your publications in html/css?
What kind of question is that? Can you easily reference your HTML CV in Latex? Anyway, yes you can, evidently: http://code.google.com/p/bibtex-js/
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>Ie so that your city column consistently shows up in the same place after you include a new job with a date string that is longer than previous jobs.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_float.asp is pretty standard, if that's what you're talking about. I'm not 100% clear what you're asking about (I'd need to see an example), but it sounds like you're looking for either float or tables.
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>How do you do date calculations in html/css?
I'm sure some hack exists for this somewhere, but generally if you want imperative computation you'd be best served by including a JavaScript library (which, as mentioned, wkhtmltopdf will support flawlessly).
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>What is the html/css equivalent of siunits?
Obviously it would be silly to claim pure HTML/CSS as a holy grail of math-related symbol rendering, but if you find yourself in the position of needing this capability in an HTML/CSS document, try this: http://www.mathjax.org/
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>How does html/css handle page breaks?
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_print_pageba.asp
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>What is the css/html equivalent of widow/orphan control?
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/page.html#break-inside
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>When a resume with a list of long publications goes many pages how does wkhtmlpdf update headers/footers that reference page numbers and section titles?
http://stackoverflow.com/a/7174900/459881
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>Can it use a different header footer on pages 2+?
Should be fairly trivial to add on the to the previous solution.
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>More generally would you recommend printing a book with html/css?
Sure, why not? I'd personally prefer something like Markdown from a syntactic perspective (which renders to HTML/CSS), given the large amount of text to be written, but from a formatting perspective it would be perfectly fine.
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>If you are such a fan of wkhtmlpdf why did you use itext for your resume?
I didn't? I'd never heard of iText before, but my build script does run the output of wkhtmltopdf through pdftk to add metadata; it's possible that iText is a dependency of pdftk. If you want the source I have it up here: http://buu700.com/cv.html