Typesetting a CV with LaTeX

Dario Taraborelli has an excellent LaTeX page that showcases the advanced typography that TeX is capable of (although he is very Mac OS X-centric and promotes proprietary fonts, sadly) and even has a page about typesetting a CV which I used to make my latest CV.

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June 9, 2008 | Filed Under Personal Thoughts 

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5 Responses to “Typesetting a CV with LaTeX”

  1. Dario on June 10th, 2008 18:54

    Hi David,

    thanks for the nice words. You’ve got a point when you say that I’m too Mac-centric and that I seem to be promoting proprietary fonts. My message is really about TeX and OpenType so I’ll definitely prepare more examples using open license fonts, as I do on my cvtex tutorial. XeTeX being platform-independent should make it easy for Linux or WIndows users to obtain the same results.

  2. David Crossland on June 11th, 2008 20:14

    Dario, I see you’re in Surrey - perhaps you’ll consider joining UKTUG? Or perhaps even the UKTUG Committee - we’re in need of new blood :-) You mention Jos Buivenga’s fonts as “free” but they are “zero price” and not redistributable or modifiable so not ‘free software’ as the phrase is generally understood and as TeX is. Thanks for publishing your work freely, perhaps you could also adopt a formal license rather than just giving permission :-)

  3. Dario on June 11th, 2008 22:17

    David, thanks for the pointer, I’ll check this out (at first glance many links seem to be inactive though). I am well aware of the…erm… ambiguity of “free”, however the short section on expert fonts in my tutorial is completely neutral to the question of licenses and doesn’t even try to venture into advocacy territory. A more critical selection of free (as in speech) TeX-related resources for Mac users is here. All of my TeX tutorials are CC-licensed, the WTFPL is really meant for a few techies :p

  4. David Crossland on June 11th, 2008 22:34

    Yes, UKTUG website is in a very poor state :( You’d be more than welcome to help with that if you joined though :) For licensing, I meant that your tex sources say “DISCLAIMER: This template is provided for free and without any guarantee that it will correctly compile on your system if you have a non-standard configuration.” when it needs to have a copyright notice like “Copyright (c) Your Name 200X” and then a real copyright license like the WTFPL. WTFPL is good for this since its the most simple license I know.

  5. Dario on June 12th, 2008 10:24

    Oops I hadn’t realised I still had this in the sources! Thanks for the heads up, I’ll fix this soon!

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