From 0fbbd9840b22da1db850d9deb0a4fc63d4cf04c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zool Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:37:58 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add extra packages list and link to the output --- README.md | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7666a6d..0e2e590 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,15 +1,17 @@ -# Clean LaTeX Vita +# CV/Résumé Boilerplate -This is a modified version of Dario Taborelli's [cvtex](https://github.com/dartar/cvtex) template. The original is targeted to academics and scientist, this one is suited for everyone else. +It contains a modified version of Dario Taborelli's [cvtex](https://github.com/dartar/cvtex) template. The original is targeted to academics and scientist, while this one should be well suited for everyone else. Since I find writing LaTeX tedious, I've ported the whole thing to [pandoc](http://pandoc.org/), abstracted the layout into a TeX file, and moved the content to a yaml file. +Take a look at [output.pdf](output.pdf) to see the final result. + ## Dependencies -1. LaTeX +1. LaTeX with the following extra packages: `fontspec` `geometry` `multicol` `xunicode` `xltxtra` `marginnote` `sectsty` `ulem` `hyperref` 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 additional packages with `tlmgr` as needed. Same goes for Linux: install `texlive-base` with your package manager and add extra packages later when needed. +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. To install pandoc on Mac OS X, run `brew install pandoc`. To install it on Linux, refer to the [official docs](http://pandoc.org/installing.html). @@ -21,6 +23,12 @@ Refer to [pandoc's documentation](http://pandoc.org/demo/example9/templates.html Note: this template needs to be compiled with XeTeX. +## Available settings + +- `**mainfont**`: Hoefler Text is the default, but every font installed in your system should work. +- `**fontsize**`: Possible values are 10pt, 11pt and 12pt. +- `**geometry**`: A string that sets the margins. Check out [this page](https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Page_size_and_margins) to learn how the package `geometry` works. + ## Recommended reading - [Résumé advices](http://practicaltypography.com/resumes.html) from Butterick's Practical Typography