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Tips for Professional CV Writing with LaTeX

Month: September, 2009

CV Tip: Letterspacing your name with XeLaTeX + Fontspec

Typographic Principle:
Letterspacing  may increase the readability of your text, whereby the principle applies to
a) text set in bold;
b) text set in small caps.
It does not apply to text set in lowercase. In other words, don’t letterspace text set in lowercase.
How does this apply to a Resume?
There are at least two cases in which we [...]

The “Linux” LaTeX CV Template

I decided to call this template generally “Linux” because I had had the opportunity to bump into the very interesting project called Linux Libertine which intends to develop, build and distribute a new typeface alternative to Times Roman that embraces the principles of open source and free “software”.