cnbs06@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (Bruce Rodger.) (01/28/91)
In article <4628@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, isaac@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Isaac Balbin) writes: > stevens@greece.ctr.columbia.edu (Andy Stevens) writes: > >>Does anybody have a tex input file for a C.V.? I would appreciate it >>if you could mail it to me and save me some work. > > There are two on sun.soe.clarkson.edu in pub/tex/latex-style > res.sty and resume.sty with some example files. > > In my opinion, they are both horrible. Agreed ! The following is a LaTeX CV which I have used in the past. The details have been changed to protect the innocent/guilty. it's a bit of a hack, using tabular environments to line things up, and gives loads of overfull hbox errors - nevertheless, it works fairly well. Share and enjoy. Bruce. -------------------------------cut here ----------------------------------- % Sample CV % Gives loads of errors, but just ignore them % R.B. Rodger, 1 November 1990 % % CV's are notoriously difficult to do in LateX, as they do not follow % any of the 'standard' formats. % % The following LaTeX stuff produces a reasonable CV - at least, it got % me a job :-) It will give dozens of errors about 'overfull hboxes' and % all that rubbish when you latex it - ignore this, just keep hitting the % return key.... % % % Bruce. % (cnbs06@vaxa.strath.ac.uk) \documentstyle[12pt,a4]{article} \begin{document} \pagestyle{empty} \centerline{\bf\huge Curriculum Vitae.} \vskip 10mm \begin{tabular}{ll} {\bf Name:} & {\em Arthur Pewty}\\ \\ {\bf Address:} & 12 Acacia Avenue,\\ & Swindon,\\ & Bananaland,\\ & W1 8QT.\\ \\ {\bf Telephone:} & (1234) 56789\\ \\ {\bf Date of Birth:} & 6 November 1901.\\ \\ {\bf Marital status:} & Married.\\ \\ \hline \\ {\bf Education:} & \\ \\ 1920 : 1939 & Kilmacolm School for the Mentally Deranged.\\ & SCE Highers: Maths, Physics, Chemistry,\\ & English, French, Plasticene.\\ & (all at grade 'Z')\\ \\ 1945 : 1914 & Department of Fruit and Vegetables,\\ & University of Strathclyde,\\ & Glasgow.\\ & BSc Hons (1st class) in Aubergines.\\ \\ 1966 : 2089 & Department of Silly Things,\\ & University of Saltcoats,\\ & Glasgow.\\ & Postgraduate Study leading to PhD (estimated completion\\ & date: October 2001)\\ \\ \end{tabular} \\ %\hline \\ \clearpage \noindent {\bf Current research:}\\ \\ (lots of interesting stuff here :-) \vskip 10mm \\ \noindent {\bf Previous Employment:}\\ \noindent \\ \begin{tabular}{ll} 1984 - 1989 :& Apprentice Lamppost, Main St, Coatbridge.\\ 1990 - 2000 :& Chief Workstation-Polisher,\\ & Strathclyde University.\\ \\ \end{tabular} \\ {\bf Prizes and Distinctions:}\\ \\ You are joking, surely ? \vskip 10mm \\ \hline \vskip 10mm \\ \noindent {\bf Computing Experience:}\\ \\ Owner of a ZX81 and a genuine Chinese Abacus. Also have considerable experience of digital watches. \\ \end{tabular} \hline \\ \vskip 10mm \noindent {\bf Referees:}\\ \\ \noindent Mr Brian McGinlay,\\ Scottish Football Association,\\ Park Gardens,\\ Glasgow.\\ \\ \\ Mr Archie ``I'm better looking than Hazel Irvine'' MacPherson,\\ Department of BBC Refugees,\\ Scottish Television,\\ Glasgow. \\ \end{document} --------------------------------cut here----------------------------------- -- -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ R.B. Rodger | JANET: R.B.Rodger@uk.ac.strath.vaxa OptoElectronics Group | Internet: R.B.Rodger@vaxa.strath.ac.uk Elec. Eng. Dept | Strathclyde University| Glasgow G1 1XW | Scotland. | -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
marcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot) (01/31/91)
In <1991Jan28.143743.9825@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> Bruce Rodger (cnbs06@vaxa.strath.ac.uk) writes: % CV's are notoriously difficult to do in LateX, as they do not follow % any of the 'standard' formats. % % The following LaTeX stuff produces a reasonable CV - at least, it got % me a job :-) It will give dozens of errors about 'overfull hboxes' and % all that rubbish when you latex it - ignore this, just keep hitting the % return key.... Hm. TeX is a program for typesetting texts (actually, for typesetting ``beautiful books''), and typesetting a CV is certainly within its range of capabilities. LaTeX is a set of TeX-macros that help you to typeset books, papers for journals, etc. --- but that's all it is. If you have an application where a particular set of macros is not useful, then why insist on using that macro-package in the first place? In other words, if it's hard in LaTeX, it's for a simple one-time thing like a CV, and it doesn't require anything sophisticated like creation of indices or automatic cross-references, then why not just use plain TeX? Marcel van der Goot .---------------------------------------------------------------- | Blauw de viooltjes, marcel@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu | Rood zijn de rozen; | Een rijm kan gezet | Met plaksel en dozen. |
cnbs06@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (Bruce Rodger.) (02/01/91)
In article <1991Jan31.035525.17664@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, marcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot) writes: > In <1991Jan28.143743.9825@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> Bruce Rodger > (cnbs06@vaxa.strath.ac.uk) writes: (my comments on using LaTeX for writing CVs) > > In other words, if it's hard in LaTeX, it's for a simple one-time > thing like a CV, and it doesn't require anything sophisticated like > creation of indices or automatic cross-references, then why not > just use plain TeX? Simple reason - I use LaTeX virtually every day. I hardly ever use plain TeX. So I know how to do things using LaTeX, but would have to spend ages going through the docs tyo work out how to do them in TeX. It might have been more elegant in TeX, but it would have taken me a hell of a lot longer to write it.... Bruce.
extel@quagga.ru.ac.za (Dr. Eberhard Lisse) (02/05/91)
In <1991Feb1.113904.9890@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cnbs06@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (Bruce Rodger.) writes: >In article <1991Jan31.035525.17664@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, marcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot) writes: >> In <1991Jan28.143743.9825@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> Bruce Rodger >> (cnbs06@vaxa.strath.ac.uk) writes: > (my comments on using LaTeX for writing CVs) >> >> In other words, if it's hard in LaTeX, it's for a simple one-time >> thing like a CV, and it doesn't require anything sophisticated like >> creation of indices or automatic cross-references, then why not >> just use plain TeX? >Simple reason - I use LaTeX virtually every day. I hardly ever use plain TeX. >So I know how to do things using LaTeX, but would have to spend ages going >through the docs tyo work out how to do them in TeX. >It might have been more elegant in TeX, but it would have taken me a hell of a >lot longer to write it.... >Bruce. I also never ever write in \TeX\ but \LaTeX. I recently wrote a CV for a job application inhouse and compared it with the style recently on this group and must say that for such important matters one should not use a STY which is only so much configurable but write one's own customized version. Not that I want to critizise the author just the opposite, I always try and learn from all the STYles I download, even if I can't really use them. -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse, Katatura State Hospital Private Bag 13260 Windhoek Namibia