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# CV/Résumé Boilerplate
This little project should ease the pain of building and maintaining a CV or résumé using LaTeX.
A boilerplate to ease the pain of building and maintaining a CV or résumé using LaTeX.
Since I find writing LaTeX code tedious and error-prone, I keep the actual content of the CV in a yaml file for easier editing and updating, while the layout lives in a separate TeX file. The amazing [pandoc](http://pandoc.org/) takes then care of wrapping everything together and compiling the PDF through LaTeX.
Separating presentation from content makes life easier. The typical content of a CV is a perfect fit for the yaml syntax due to its structured nature:
This repository contains a modified version of Dario Taraborelli's [cvtex](https://github.com/dartar/cvtex) template. The original is targeted to academics and scientist, while this one should be flexible enough for everyone.
```YAML
---
name: Friedrich Nietzsche
address:
- Humboldtstraße 36
- 99425 Weimar
- Prussia
phone: "+49 03643 545400"
experience:
- years: 1879--1889
employer: Freiberufler
job: Freier Philisoph
city: Sils-Maria
- years: 1869–-1879
employer: Universität Basel
job: Professor für klassische Philologie
city: Basel
```
That makes super easy to update a CV while keeping a consistent structure.
Thanks to [pandoc](http://pandoc.org/), we can then access our data from `template.tex` by using a special notation. Iterating on repetitive data structures becomes trivial:
```latex
$for(experience)$
$experience.years$\\
\textsc{$experience.employer$}\\
\emph{$experience.job$}\\
$experience.city$\\[.2cm]
$endfor$
```
Below a preview of the final result. Check out the [output](output.pdf) to see the compiled PDF.
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## Dependencies
1. LaTeX with the following extra packages: `fontspec` `geometry` `multicol` `xunicode` `xltxtra` `marginnote` `sectsty` `ulem` `hyperref` `polyglossia`
2. pandoc
2. Pandoc
To install LaTeX on Mac OS X, I recommend getting the smaller version BasicTeX from [here](https://tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html) and installing the additional packages with `tlmgr` afterwards. Same goes for Linux: install `texlive-base` with your package manager and add the needed additional packages later.
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- **`mainfont`**: Hoefler Text is the default, but every font installed in your system should work out of the box
- **`fontsize`**: Possible values here are 10pt, 11pt and 12pt.
- **`lang`**: Sets the main language through the `polyglossia` package. This is important for proper hyphenation, among other things.
- **`geometry`**: Sets the margins through `geometry`. Read [this](https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Page_size_and_margins) to learn how this package works.
- **`geometry`**: A string that sets the margins through `geometry`. Read [this](https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Page_size_and_margins) to learn how this package works.
## Recommended reading
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## License
[CC BY-SA 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
This repository contains a modified version of Dario Taraborelli's [cvtex](https://github.com/dartar/cvtex) template.
License: [CC BY-SA 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)