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CurrVita & ClassicThesis LaTeX CV Template – 100 lines of code

Alessandro — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:45:37 +0000

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 202 of “L’Arte di Scrivere con LaTeX” by Lorenzo Pantieri, available in Italian at [PDF] the author’s website.

As always, a preview of the final document follows (those screenshots are from multiple documents and variations thereof).

1 The Preamble

\documentclass{scrartcl}	% classe article di KOMA

1.1 Margin Notes

In the economy of this document, margin notes will be fundamental markers as the following image clearly shows

First we need to set margin notes to default to the left margin (reversemarginpar), then I create a new shortcut command which will set the notes ragged left, italic, and small.

\reversemarginpar
\newcommand{\MarginDate}[1]{\marginpar{\raggedleft\itshape\small#1}}

1.2 Style and Currvita helper package

For a more in–depth analysis of the packages, refer to CTAN and the appropriate documentation.

\usepackage[LabelsAligned]{currvita}	% CV package
\usepackage[nochapters]{classicthesis} %  ClassicThesis style

1.3 Miscellaneous Commands

\usepackage{url}	% per gli indirizzi Internet
\renewcommand{\cvheadingfont}{\LARGE\color{Maroon}}
\renewcommand{\cvlistheadingfont}{\large}
\renewcommand{\cvlabelfont}{\qquad}
%Setup hyperref package, and colours for links, text and headings
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{	colorlinks,breaklinks,
			urlcolor=Maroon,
			linkcolor=Maroon}
\usepackage{eurosym}

1.4 Boxes and Dimensions

We will need to know the width of the biggest entry in the work experience “period”, in this way we make sure we have enought space for all the periods to align neatly.

\newlength{\datebox}
\settowidth{\datebox}{Summer 2007} 
\newcommand{\Sep}{\vspace{2em}} % a trivial separator
% the following is for languages
\newlength{\langbox}
\settowidth{\langbox}{English}

1.5 Helper Commands: NewWorkExperience and Description

NewWorkExperience creates a Date – Job coupling, with a third argument for a location.

\newcommand{\NewWorkExperience}[3]{\noindent\hangindent=2em\hangafter=0 \parbox{\datebox}{\textit{#1}}\hspace{1.5em} #2 #3%
\vspace{0.5em}}

while Description is simply a ragged right text box which contains a description of the job.

\newcommand{\Description}[1]{\hangindent=2em\hangafter=0\noindent\raggedright\footnotesize{#1}\par\normalsize}

The Document

The document is very simple, there is nothing particularly fancy and it is mostly self–explanatory.

\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\begin{cv}{\spacedallcaps{Marco Tullio Cicerone}}
\vspace{1.5em}
 
\spacedlowsmallcaps{Personal Data}
\vspace{0.5em}
 
\NewWorkExperience{}{\textit{Born in Matera,}}{13 November 1920}
 
\NewWorkExperience{email}{\href{mailto:name.surname@gmail.com}{name.surname@gmail.com}}{}
 
\NewWorkExperience{phone}{+123 456 7890}{}
\vspace{1.5em}
 
\noindent\spacedlowsmallcaps{Work Experience}
\vspace{0.5em}
 
\NewWorkExperience{Current}{Trader at Enoi spa,}{Milan}
 
\Description{Provided analysis of spreads, \MarginDate{Physical Natural Gas Trading}
in particular time and location spreads, with emphasis on trading
opportunities on the curve, also taking into
account the availability of storage facilities. Became familiar with logistic implications of physical gas trading and developed knowledge of continental virtual hubs for gas exchange.}
 
\Sep
 
\NewWorkExperience{2008--2009}{Lehman Brothers,}{London}
 
\Description{Developed spreadsheets for risk analysis\MarginDate{Commodities Exotics Trading} on exotic derivatives on a wide array of commodities (ags, oils, precious and base metals), managed blotter and secondary trades on structured notes, liaised with Middle Office, Sales and Structuring for bookkeeping}
 
\Sep
 
\NewWorkExperience{Summer 2007}{Lehman Brothers,}{London}
 
\Description{Received pre-placed offer from the Exotics Trading Desk as a \MarginDate{Summer Internship} result of very positive review.
Rated ``truly distinctive'' for Analytical Skills and Teamwork}
\vspace{1.5em}
 
\spacedlowsmallcaps{Education}
\vspace{0.5em}
 
\NewWorkExperience{July 2008}{Bocconi University,}{Milan}
 
\Description{110/110 \textit{summa cum laude}\ \ $\cdotp$\ \  Major: Quantitative Finance\MarginDate{Master of Science in Finance}\newline Thesis: ``Sublinear and Locally Sublinear Prices'' \newline Advisor: Prof.~Erio \textsc{Castagnoli}\ \ $\cdotp$\ \  Gpa: 28.61/30}
 
\Sep
 
\NewWorkExperience{July 2006}{Bocconi University,}{Milan}
 
\Description{110/110 \textit{summa cum laude}\ \ $\cdotp$\ \  Major: Quantitative Finance\MarginDate{Some Other Education}\newline Thesis: ``Sublinear and Locally Sublinear Prices'' \newline Advisor: Prof.~Erio \textsc{Castagnoli}\ \ $\cdotp$\ \  Gpa: 28.61/30}
\vspace{1.5em}
 
\spacedlowsmallcaps{Additional Information}
\vspace{0.5em}
 
\Description{Sept. 2006	Scholarship for graduate students with an outstanding curriculum (\euro\ 30,000) }
 
\vspace{1em}
 
\Description{June 2006	Gmat\textregistered: 730 (q:50;v:39) \MarginDate{Gmat}96\textsuperscript{th} percentile; \newline\textsc{awa}: 6.0/6.0 (89\textsuperscript{th} percentile)}
 
\vspace{1em}
\Description{\parbox{\langbox}{\textsc{English}}\ \ $\cdotp$\ \  \ Fluent}
 
\vspace{0.5em}
 
\Description{\parbox{\langbox}{\textsc{French}}\ \ $\cdotp$\ \  \ Fluent}
\MarginDate{Languages}
\vspace{0.5em}
 
\Description{\parbox{\langbox}{\textsc{Italian}}\ \ $\cdotp$\ \ \  Mother Tongue}
\vspace{1em}
 
\Description{\LaTeX\ \ $\cdotp$\ \ Typography\ \ $\cdotp$\ \  Programming\ \ $\cdotp$\ \  Other\MarginDate{Interests}}
\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
\end{cv}
\end{document}

The PDF Document is available here and the tex source here.

The “Linux” LaTeX CV Template

Alessandro — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:46:40 +0000

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”.

On wikipedia, Linux Libertine is described as:

[…] a serif proportional font that looks like a 19th century book type, though it has been developed for today’s usability. It contains more than 2000 Unicode characters, including support for many different languages of the western Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew typeset. Additionally it offers several ligatures (such as ff, fi, ct, …) and has special characters like IPA characters, arrows, floral symbols, Roman numbers, oldstyle numbers, small caps etc. The OpenType implementation allows automatic positioning and substitution like true fractures, ligatures and kerning

You can find more about Linux Libertine at their website, a few examples of glyphs and characters are shown below, together with a preview of the CV Template that we will build using this typeface:

Features:

Grid Based with my custom style file (more on this in the following weeks)
Linux Libertine Font and Qlassik Medium for the name header
Nice and Clean color structure based only on shades of grey
Custom itemization of Computer Languages with gradient bullets
Support for inserting in an easy way a picture
Support for a personal quote, a very short summary, or a career objective right below the name, emphasizing its importance

Check out the code and the final result and let me know your feedback…

LaTeX Linux CV Template

The document with its grid can be seen here and a zip bundle with the .sty to generate the grid is at this link

 % ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------%
%	Created by Alessandro with TeXShop						%
%	---->	Sep 1, 2009										%
%	Compiled with XeLaTeX, on Mac OS X 10.5					%
%	Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported	%
%	Share, change, spread, and have fun!						%
%	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/					%
%	You can find more at http://cv-templates.info				%
% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------%
 
\documentclass{article}
%% LaTeX Preamble - Common packages
 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % Any characters can be typed directly from the keyboard, eg √©√ß√±
 
\usepackage{textcomp} 	% provide lots of new symbols
\usepackage{graphicx}  	% Add graphics capabilities
\usepackage{xcolor}		% Colors 
 
% Define Colors
\definecolor{lightg}{HTML}{999999}
\definecolor{medg}{HTML}{666666}
\definecolor{darkg}{HTML}{333333}
 
\usepackage{wrapfig}
 
%FONTS
\usepackage{fontspec} % not using this much although I should have
\font\head="Qlassik Medium:letterspace=4" at 34pt % http://www.dafont.com/qlassik.font
\font\subhead="Linux Libertine O Bold" at 15pt
\font\Quote="Linux Libertine O Bold Italic:mapping=tex-text" at 16pt
\font\Text="Linux Libertine O" at 11pt
\font\Textit="Linux Libertine O/I:+onum" at 11pt 	% /I select Italic
\font\Textblack="Linux Libertine O/BI" at 9pt 	% /BI select Bold Italic 
\font\Textsc="Linux Libertine O:+smcp" at 11pt 	% +smcp selects Small Caps
\font\wdate="Linux Libertine O:+smcp, letterspace=4,+onum" at 9pt % +onum old style numerals
 
\usepackage[margin=10mm]{geometry} % Margins
 
\usepackage[pdftex,bookmarks,colorlinks,breaklinks]{hyperref}  % PDF 
 
\usepackage{setspace} % leading
 
 
% Commands to keep the code clean
% Below experience section you can see this structure
% WorkDate -> Keyword
% ^^ Multi line WorkDescription ^^
 
\newcommand{\workdate}[1]{%
	\textcolor{lightg}{\wdate #1}}
 
\newcommand{\workdescription}[1]{%
\raggedright\textcolor{medg}{\Text \begin{spacing}{1.1818}#1 \end{spacing}}}
% Variation with reduced leading
\newcommand{\workdescriptionVAR}[1]{
\raggedright\textcolor{medg}{\Text \begin{spacing}{1.1}#1 \end{spacing}}}
 
%Styling Itemizations
\usepackage{enumitem}
\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{\textcolor{lightg}{\symbol{"F6B9}}}
% Bullets
\definecolor{noteone}{HTML}{999999}
\definecolor{notetwo}{HTML}{848484}
\definecolor{notethree}{HTML}{424242}
\definecolor{notefour}{HTML}{212121}
\definecolor{notefive}{HTML}{000000}
 
\newcommand{\fivenotes}{%
\textcolor{noteone}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{notetwo}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{notethree}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{notefour}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{notefive}{\symbol{"2022}}
}
\newcommand{\fournotes}{%
\textcolor{noteone}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{notetwo}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{notethree}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{notefour}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{white}{\symbol{"2022}}
}
\newcommand{\threenotes}{%
\textcolor{noteone}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{notetwo}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{notethree}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{white}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{white}{\symbol{"2022}}
}
\newcommand{\twonotes}{%
\textcolor{noteone}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{notetwo}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{white}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{white}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{white}{\symbol{"2022}}
}
\newcommand{\onenote}{%
\textcolor{noteone}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{white}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{white}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{white}{\symbol{"2022}}
\textcolor{white}{\symbol{"2022}}
}
% Important: This is not an official package, is a customized typogrid
% .sty file which I wrote and enables the 5 column grid
\usepackage[draft, columns=5]{mytypogrid}
 
\begin{document}
 
\parindent=0cm
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.59\linewidth}
 
\head \textcolor{darkg}{RICHARD STALLMAN}\\ \\
\begin{wrapfigure}{i}{0pt}
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{gnu.png}
\hspace{25pt}
\end{wrapfigure}
\raggedright\Quote\color{darkg} \kern -10pt``\ I like computers, music and butterflies --- among other things.''
\vspace{3em}
\hrule
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.38\textwidth}
\Textit \textcolor{darkg}{born}\ \textcolor{lightg}{ March 16, 1953}
\vspace{2.2em}
 
\subhead \textcolor{darkg}{Contacts}\\\color{medg}
 
\Text \textcolor{medg}{
Free Software Foundation\\
Boston, Massachusetts, USA}\\
\textcolor{darkg}{phone} : 123 456 789\\
\textcolor{darkg}{email} : rms@gnu.org
\vspace{1em}
 
\textcolor{lightg}{http://www.stallman.org/}
\end{minipage}
\vspace{2.3em}
 
\subhead \symbol{"E000}\ Experience
 
\hspace{0.205\textwidth}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.38\textwidth}
\vspace{0pt}
\workdate{1983}\hfill\Textblack Manifesto
\workdescription{Published the GNU Manifesto, which outlined his motivation for creating a free operating system called GNU, which would be compatible with Unix.}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.387\textwidth}
\vspace{0pt}
\workdate{1985}\hfill\Textblack Emacs
\workdescription{Popularized the concept of copyleft, a legal mechanism to protect the modification and redistribution rights for free software. It was first implemented in the GNU Emacs General Public License.}
\end{minipage}
 
\vspace{1em}
 
\hspace{0.205\textwidth}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.38\textwidth}
\workdate{1987}\hfill\Textblack GNU
\workdescription{The first program-independent GNU General Public License (GPL) was released. By then, much of the GNU system had been completed.}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.38\textwidth}
\workdate{1991}\hfill\Textblack Linux
\workdescription{Linus Torvalds, a Finnish student, used the GNU development tools to produce the Linux kernel}
\end{minipage}
\vspace{3em}
\hrule
\vspace{4.1em}
 
\subhead\kern -13pt\symbol{"E000} Computer Specialties \symbol{"E050} Programming Languages\\
 
\hspace{0.205\textwidth}\begin{minipage}[t]{0.38\textwidth}
\hfill\Textblack ...in words...
\workdescriptionVAR{\vspace{5pt}
The GNU Compiler Collection (usually shortened to GCC) is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages. \\\vspace{10pt}GCC is a key component of the GNU toolchain. 
\\\vspace{10pt} As well as being the official compiler of the GNU operating system, GCC has been adopted as the standard compiler by most other modern Unix-like computer operating systems, including GNU/Linux, the BSD family and Mac OS X. \\\vspace{10pt}GCC has been ported to a wide variety of processor architectures, and is widely deployed as a tool in commercial, proprietary and closed source software development environments.}
 
\end{minipage}
\hspace{3.1mm}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.38\textwidth}
\Textblack ...and in bullets.
\vspace{5pt}
\begin{itemize}[leftmargin=25pt, rightmargin=55pt, labelsep=10pt, itemsep=0pt, topsep=0pt]\Text
\item \textcolor{medg}{C++}\hfill \fournotes
\item \color{medg}C\hfill \threenotes
\item Lisp\hfill \fivenotes
\item Bash \hfill \twonotes
\item GNU/Linux \hfill \fournotes
\item Lisp\hfill \fivenotes
\item Bash \hfill \twonotes
\item GNU/Linux \hfill \fournotes
\item Lisp\hfill \fivenotes
\item Bash \hfill \twonotes
\item GNU/Linux \hfill \fournotes
\item Lisp\hfill \fivenotes
\item Bash \hfill \twonotes
\item GNU/Linux \hfill \fournotes
\end{itemize}
\end{minipage}
\vfill
\raggedleft\wdate Typeset \today
\end{document}

Non-prehistoric LaTeX Resume Template — Advanced Graphics and Typography

Alessandro — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:15:52 +0000

The Typographer

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 to showcase the possibility that XeLaTeX offers to customize a lot of aspects of the style of your document, and for the purpose of this tutorial I figured I was a web designer and wanted to showcase, along with my computer skills and my experience, example thumbnails of work as a designer and finishing off the document with a fancy contact section.

A preview follows

1 – Toolkit: Packages and Preamble

1.1 – Graphics and Colours

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
 
%Load Graphics and Colours
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{backgrounds}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\definecolor{linkcolour}{HTML}{2b2b2b}
\definecolor{text1}{HTML}{2B2B2B}
\definecolor{headings}{HTML}{CC3300}
\definecolor{backgroundColor}{HTML}{CC3300}

This is the color combination that will be used

1.2 – Margins and Leading

%margins
\usepackage[hmargin=1.25cm, vmargin=1cm]{geometry}
\linespread{1.2}
\usepackage{setspace}

Things to notice:

the linespread command is used for the whole document;
the setspace package is used to address specific paragraphs;

1.3 – Styling Itemization

Styling Itemization with Custom Calluna Symbol

The package enumitem allows you to apply a custom style to your enumerations, and many other things like spacing and indenting: check out the documentation on CTAN.

%Styling Itemizations
\usepackage{enumitem}
\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{\symbol{"E052}}

1.4 – Fonts for XeLaTeX; Calluna and Helvetica Neue

We will use the following two professional fonts:

CALLUNA

Calluna Regular — A wonderful new free professional font

HELVETICA NEUE BOLD

Adobe Helvetica Neue Black

Helvetica Neue is a commercial fonts and may not be available to your system: I suggest taking a look at some other free fonts for headings, for example Qlassik Bold

%Fonts and Tweaks for XeLaTeX
\font\headers="Helvetica Neue Bold:letterspace=5" at 20pt
\font\SectionHeaders="Helvetica Neue Bold:letterspace=5" at 14pt
\font\Career="Calluna:color=2b2b2b" at 13pt
\font\Text="Calluna:color=2b2b2b" at 11pt
\font\TextAlt="Calluna:color=CC3300" at 11pt
\font\TextSC="Calluna:+smcp, color=2b2b2b" at 11pt
\font\slash="Calluna:+zero, color=2b2b2b" at 40pt
\font\slashAlt="Calluna:+zero, color=CC3300" at 40pt
\font\ContactHeaders="Calluna" at 170 pt
\font\trick="Calluna:color=FFFFFF" at 0.1 pt

Other things to notice here:

letterspace is modified to allow for headings to be more legible. This is usual practice with all caps text;
color is given to the command setting the font name;
+smcp is XeTeX syntax to recall Small Caps in the font table;
+zero is XeTeX syntax to recall Slashed Zero in the font table;
trick will be used as a workaround to hyperlinks not working properly for images in XeLaTeX;
I decided to use this syntax, however you could more easily access font features with the well-known fontspec package.

1.5 – Hyperref Package

%Setup hyperref package, and colours for links, text and headings
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{	colorlinks,breaklinks,
			urlcolor=linkcolour,
			linkcolor=linkcolour}

1.6 – Custom Sections

%custom \section
\usepackage{titlesec}				
 
%CV Sections inspired by:
%http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/26
\titleformat{\section}
	{\SectionHeaders\raggedright}{}{0em}{}
 
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{0pt}{5pt}
\thispagestyle{empty}

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