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Category: LaTeX

LaTeX Guide to putting a picture in your CV

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 [...]

CV Tip: Align Columns of Different LaTeX Tables with \settowidth

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 [...]

CurrVita & ClassicThesis LaTeX CV Template – 100 lines of code

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 [...]

Non-prehistoric LaTeX Resume Template — Advanced Graphics and Typography

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 [...]

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) [...]