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Tips for Professional CV Writing with LaTeX

Month: July, 2009

LaTeX Fonts: 9 Fonts You Don’t Know (and How To Use Them)

Has the Computer Modern Font already bored you?
While I find it extremely clean and elegant, I don’t want people to recognize my typesetting system by the font — especially my Curriculum Vitæ. Indeed, it’s very easy to associate a document to LaTeX when it’s typeset in Computer Modern, headings are not customized, and the style [...]

Alternate Row Shading in LaTeX Table

This tutorial has been contributed to the wikibooks project. You can find it at this link (currently accepted)
Table Data are notoriously hard to read line by line.
In the very same way, grades in a Curriculum can be hard to read.
A nifty and quick workaround is to shade alternate rows with different colours, preferably one white [...]

Wrapping Text in Rounded Corners ColorBox in LaTeX with TikZ and PGF

How the heck do we make a text box with a color background have its corners rounded? I wondered.
In images, how do we make the transition from the first screenshot below to the second, and maybe even to the third one?

Turns out the answer given from google’s results is more complicated than life (and LaTeX) [...]