A recurrent question on this blog and in general concerns the insertion of a picture in a common Curriculum Vitae, with or without LaTeX.
On this topic, my opinion is that a Curriculum without a picture definitely looks more polished because it’s very hard to insert a picture that fits the professional requirements of a resume.
A [...]
The problem with tables in a CV is that they are usually typeset as pairs of date => some job title, or piece of research.
For example, on the left, you can see three different sections:
A Work Experience section;
The Education section;
Another Section for Scholarships
So what happens when you are typesetting the columns of the document, especially [...]
The PDF Document is available here and the tex source here.
We are going to typeset a very clean and easy layout for a curriculum vitae using LaTeX, currvita and ClassicThesis. While I’m not extremely familiar with those styles, I took inspiration from the code snippet for a CV which is to be found at page [...]
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 [...]
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”.
Most of the templates built with LaTeX look like prehistoric documents and are embarassing in that they are usually designed with the standard font, with the standard class, no colours whatsoever, no creativity.
Plain LaTeX — what one would do when writing a math paper, just load a few packages and you’re good to go.
I wanted [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
In this part we will cover the following:
1. Splitting the document with vertically aligned minipages;
2. Designing the Work Experience and Education Section;
The first part of this tutorial is to be found at this post.
Just for a quick recap, this is what we want to achieve as our final result
Updated: this post is getting too long, it’s going to be divided into multiple parts. The second part is now available at this link
In this post and in the following parts I will cover and try to explain how to design a two-column layout in LaTeX.
This CV template will have a humanistic look and feel, [...]