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”.
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 [...]
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 [...]
In this part we will cover the following:
1. Splitting the document with vertically aligned minipages;
2. Designing the Work Experience and Education Section;
The first part of this tutorial is to be found at this post.
Just for a quick recap, this is what we want to achieve as our final result
Updated: this post is getting too long, it’s going to be divided into multiple parts. The second part is now available at this link
In this post and in the following parts I will cover and try to explain how to design a two-column layout in LaTeX.
This CV template will have a humanistic look and feel, [...]
Hello, and welcome to this website.
Please let me note before we move on that anything you find on this website is (legally) free. You do not have to pay neither for the software, nor for the fonts I will be using.
At the moment, I am skipping the installation part of the LaTeX system, you can [...]