cv-boilerplate/README.md

CV/Résumé Boilerplate

This little project should 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 takes then care of wrapping everything together and compiling the PDF through LaTeX.

This repository contains a modified version of Dario Taraborelli's cvtex template. The original is targeted to academics and scientist, while this one should be flexible enough for everyone.

Below a preview of the final result. Check out the output to see the compiled PDF.

Dependencies

1. LaTeX with the following extra packages: fontspec geometry multicol xunicode xltxtra marginnote sectsty ulem hyperref polyglossia
2. pandoc

To install LaTeX on Mac OS X, I recommend getting the smaller version BasicTeX from here 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.

Getting started

Edit content.yml with your personal details, work experience, education, and desired settings. Run make to compile the PDF. Tweak on template.tex until you're satisfied with the result.

Refer to pandoc's documentation to learn more about how templates work.

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 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 to learn how this package works.

Recommended reading

• Why I do my résumé in LaTeX by Dan McGee
• What are the benefits of writing resumes in TeX/LaTeX? on TeX Stack Exchange
• Typesetting your academic CV in LaTeX by Dario Taraborelli
• Résumé advices from Butterick's Practical Typography

License

CC BY-SA 3.0