My Latex resume

• Is a nicely typeset 2-page PDF (click the link to download mine)
• Compiles with or without installing software (read more below)
• Might well be a starting point for your very own Latex resume...

Linkedin serves well, but not in all situations. At some point my profile just cluttered up, while all I wanted 'them' to have is a good looking two page resume. Naturally turned to Latex.

Looking at some Latex resumes online I found non that I really liked, so I gave it my best shot. I made it into a well documented project as I expect more geeks want their resume to be typeset like this. I don't really feel like making it into library, unless someone can convince me of the benefits; in the meantime just "fork it on GitHub".

It uses TeX Gyre Pagella, a font similar to Pallatino that is often used for books. When compiled with XeLaTeX it has 'lower case numerals', which I think look very nice.

Except the horizonal lines and bullets everything is made of text. Hyper-refs are used where applicable, all in dark blue so 'print safe'.

Obviously it only relies on open source stuff.

Generating the PDF

There are several ways to generate a PDF from the Latex sources. I describe only 2 of them here...

Using ScribTex (no need to install any software)

ScribTex is a web application for creating and collaborating on Latex documents. They have a free account that requires no login and can be used to compile this resume.

To get this resume compiled with ScribTex:

1. Copy the source of the combined resume file
2. Go to ScribTex.com and click the "Try it now" button to immediately start a free but not saved project.
3. In your new project click the main.tex file and replace the content with what you copied in step 1.
4. Hit the "Compile" button to see the resulting PDF.

The build script build.sh automatically combines the resume-commands.tex with any *-resume.tex files and puts them in the combined/ folder. So if you decide to fork this project, then running ./build.sh is necessary to in case you want to follow these steps.

Using XeLaTeX

XeLaTeX is a version of Latex with great font rendering fuctionality (unicode, bidi, special font features). Since my resume uses 'lower case numerals' it looks slightly better with XeLaTeX.

In recent Ubuntu versions you simply clone this project, change directory to the root of the project and do:

    sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex tex-gyre texlive-latex-recommended
    ./build.sh

If all went well an updated version of the PDF is found in your current working directory.

ToDo

• See if LuaTex can give access to both fontspec, microtype and unicode (so it can replace Xelatex)

TaDa

• When using pdflatex the microtype package kicks in
• Made switching to the Linux Libertine font easier
• Fixed all outstanding spacing issues (thanks to the \sloppy command)
• Works out of the box with ScribTex
• Separate file for command definitions (so we can collaborate on that file using forks and pull-requests)
• Allow ligatures (not very noticable with the Pagella font, one could try Libertine or Hoefler)
• Use old style numbers (had to make the apostrophes look nice on double-digit years)
• Cleanup the tex file: some repetitive stuff can move into functions
• Clever page breaking

Terms of sharing

Feel free to use, copy, fork, share, study and/or modify it because the LaTeX source code of the resume-commands.tex file is MIT licensed.

The text of my resume in the cies-breijs-resume.tex file is CC-NC-ND licensed.