Resume
I used to use Rob Kolstad’s troff resume macros but my troff skills are pretty rusty these days and I figured it was a good excuse to learn some more LaTeX. One especially useful resource I discovered was Mathew Boedicker’s LaTeX resume tips.
I reviewed a number of different LaTeX resumes and templates and
finally settled on David Grant’s
template.
Unfortunately, it uses the old shading.sty
style which exhibits
bugs on the version of teTeX I was using and doesn’t work with
pdflatex
. I went looking for an alternate approach and found
that color.sty
, which is shipped with most TeX distributions, is
capable of doing the shading.
After some fiddling to get everything looking the way I liked, I now have:
- My resume in PDF form
- LaTeX source for the above
- A4 version of the above
- An ASCII version
Feel free to adapt this for your own resume.
It is certainly possible to add a bit of color if you like–I didn’t
want the resume to look too busy. If you’d like to add a border
around the grey boxes, just change \colorbox{mygrey}
to \fcolorbox{black}{mygrey}
.
George Louthan has created a CTAN package based on this template. The resulting LaTeX style file is easy to use and probably a better choice if you are new to to LaTeX.
Please note that the ASCII version was hand-formatted. I’m not aware
of a latex to ascii translator that preserves formatting, though
detex
can be used to extract the actual text. The
UK List of TeX Frequently Asked Questions
has a list of some other TeX to ASCII formatters.