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Tips for Professional CV Writing with LaTeX

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CV Tip: Letterspacing your name with XeLaTeX + Fontspec

Typographic Principle:
LetterspacingĀ  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 [...]

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 [...]