Matthew Boyea Resume

A visually pleasing resume document written in plaintext using Markdown + LaTeX via Pandoc + Makefile

This resume uses Pandoc to convert a collection of Markdown & LaTeX files into high-quality PDFs. Markdown is used to minimize boilerplate while writing content, and LaTeX is used to enable the best possible control over document styles. The build process is contained in a simple Makefile for ease-of-use.

• Written content and declared styles are separated in the source code (Markdown is to LaTeX as HTML is to CSS in this project).
• The build process is easily reproducible, easily editable, and fast (Makefile natively supports partial rebuilds & parallelization, and is as standard as it gets for custom build tools).
• Changes in document formatting are easy to implement (Pandoc natively supports the ability to input and output many popular formats including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint, LaTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, ConTeXt, PDF, HTML, and JSON; plus is extensible via Lua plugins, such that it could support any other format too).

Examples

Install (Arch Linux)

• Install texlive-basic texlive-latexrecommended texlive-latexextra texlive-fontsrecommended from pacman.
• Install pandoc-bin from AUR or pandoc-cli from pacman (do not install both).
• Clone this repository to a directory on your computer. That directory will be referred to as root.

Install (NixOS Linux Home Manager)

• Add packages to the config file:

pandoc
texliveFull
gnumake

• Rebuild the config file with home-manager switch or nixos-rebuild switch.
• Clone this repository to a directory on your computer. That directory will be referred to as root.

Scripts

To run a script, type the script into a terminal within the root directory.

script	description
make	compile output
make clean	delete output

Inspiration

Links to places on the internet that helped inspire this project are listed below.

• pretty tex typography examples
• skilled tex typography examples
• latex + markdown example
• pandoc + markdown + latex example
• pandoc + markdown + context guide
• pandoc latex templates

Contribute

Unfortunately, this project doesn't support community contributions right now. Feel free to fork, but be sure to read the license.