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# CV/Résumé Boilerplate
This repository 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.
This little project should ease the pain of building and maintaining a CV or résumé using LaTeX.
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.
Since I find writing LaTeX code tedious and error-prone, I've ported the whole thing to [pandoc](http://pandoc.org/). By doing this, I can 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.
This repository 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.
Take a look at [output.pdf](output.pdf) to see the final result.
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- **`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.
- **`geometry`**: This string sets margins and other parameters. Check out [this page](https://www.sharelatex.com/learn/Page_size_and_margins) to learn how the `geometry` package works.
## Recommended reading