My previous resume was a .docx file carried from computer to computer via gmail.
The initial desire was to have a resume in markdown: easy to modify, human readable, easy to translate to PDF and html with pandoc.
There are lots of articles and github repos to do this. But I could not find anything that looks slick. Lots of entirely functional resumes PDF output but everything is so dry.
One route possible is to convert the markdown to html, then provide a stylesheet, then convert this html+css to a better looking PDF. This is a little better, but then I end up mucking with CSS+html and my target is the interim resume. It is awkward. Plus I hate CSS.
So this means I arrive at the Latex resume from a template: beautiful PDF output at the expense of having to deal with Latex.
If someone reads this and has found a better way please file an issue I would love to hear about it!