Comments on: Advanced two-column LaTeX CV Template | Part 2 + TeX Source

By: lion

lion — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:43:01 +0000

Hi,

Great template!!!

Does anyone know how to insert a photo ? Alessandro maybe you can give me some advices about how to do it. I’m almost new into Latex.

thanks for answering!

By: Velimir

Velimir — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:24:28 +0000

Hey Alessandro,

I really love this CV template and have customised it for my own CV recently. I have a website where I am trying to get a bunch of useful LaTeX templates together as a single resource for this kind of thing as I found it to be lacking online. Hence, I wanted to ask whether I could add this template to my site? The direct link is here: http://vel.co.nz/vel.co.nz/LaTeX_Templates.html

Please note, I make no money from the site and credit all sources. This is purely a thing of interest for myself.

You can get back to me by email.

Cheers,
Vel

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:11:37 +0000

Check this out.
http://oldblog.marcuswinter.de/media/XeTeX-MiKTeX_2008-01-28.png
If you have windows you have to change the fonts because most likely you won’t have Hoefler Text installed unless you bought it.

By: HelpMyCV

HelpMyCV — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:54:01 +0000

Hi,

I want to use your wonderful templates for my CV. I have MikTeX 2.8 Complete and WinEdt 5.4 on my system. I tried to compile your .tex file to get the pdf but it gives me error message saying “Required: XeTeX is required to compile this file..”.

MikTeX 2.8 comes with XeTex. How do I get this done, that is compile your .tex on my computer by using WinEdt. I will really appreciate your help. I guess my problem is that I don’t know how to tell WinEdt to use XeTeX for this file. Also, I did uninstall my previous MikTeX version to install MikTeX 2.8 from scratch. But I still see a MiTeX folder in my “Program Files” next to MikTeX 2.8. Do you think that could be confusing my WinEdt, even if I uninstalled the older version?

Thanks in advance for your help. I hope to be able to use the template.
~O

By: ad

ad — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:38:51 +0000

Hi,

I’m using Hoefler Text. I just don’t see any difference when I try to use the bold type.

I found two “solutions” to keep using this font. Change the colour of the font to a lighter one and use black in the words to remark. Use another font to do it , as most of my words to remark are caps it works somehow… I used Futura type and looks more or less ok

It would be great to know how to do it with hoefler text, the caps look awesome. I red some posts about a problem of mactex 2008 with .ttf types in snow Leopard and some solutions that didn’t work for me.

Well, that’s the challenge !! As suggestion I would tell you I would include a pic on the curriculum. In my opinion a smiling B&W pic counts a lot.

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:53:46 +0000

Which font are you using?

By: ad

ad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:14:12 +0000

maybe my last question…

After trying everything I could read…I couldn’t use the bold style in this document.I red that some types have no bold style… it’s our case?
Do u know any way of using or faking the bold style?

Thanks for your knowledge

By: ad

ad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:02:22 +0000

Thanks, it works properly!

By: Alessandro

Alessandro — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:42:30 +0000

Yes, XeTeX does not recognize the documentclass command because the documentclass command was introduced with LaTeX (not TeX).
So when you compile the document you should use XeLaTeX and the documentclass command will work.

By: ad

ad — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:33:26 +0000

Hi,

Thanks a lot , your document looks great…. would like to say the same of my Tex habilities but I can’t.

I’m new into Tex and I’m using MacTex with TexShop at the moment, with pdfTex to produce my documents. I’ve tried to manage myself in XeTex but without results.

It would be great to have an “Advanced two-column LaTeX CV Template | Part 0 + TeX Source for dumbs” and to have an step by step explanation about how to run this code in Xetex.

I downloaded everything and had no problems,changed some typesettings options form the preferences menu but my XeTex keeps not recognizing the first sentence ..documentclass!!!

Well , that’s my suggestion if u want to make more universal your knowledge.

Thanks for sharing