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Tips for Professional CV Writing with LaTeX

Tag: Table

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 [...]

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 [...]