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”.
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 [...]
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) [...]