You can render the document side-by-side as you are writing it up which I found very helpful in whatever program you use to edit it. And, my hope was that other people interested in this format could use it as well in a few minutes without all the upfront work. I knew that it would likely be more work up front to create the bare bones structure, but less work on the backend when I would just add a thing or two. Quarto is a flexible platform that can generate scientific reports and publish in a variety of formats (you can actually make websites with it too). All of these thoughts led me to Posit’s relatively new Quarto. Additionally, I wanted more control over my resume than Microsoft Word was giving me and a more programmatic approach. It was getting tedious fidgeting around in the original word doc, exporting as a pdf, and then updating in all the other places I kept it. However, I wanted a way to help streamline my resume. They are simple, clean, and I love them to this day! I used the templates they have at BYU, my alma mater. I am really happy with how easy it was to take a LaTeX template and set it up in Org-mode.I made my first real resume about 7ish years ago. I showed how to convert LaTeX macros into org-mode macros and then how to use them.Ĭheck out my CV org file to see everything put together (and any topics I forgot to mention). Of particular importance are the LaTeX macros as they govern the majority of the pretty formatting. I covered the majority of the configuration and showed how each part can be used to write content. Noexport/ignore tags, tree/sub-tree folding, running source code etc. I have tried to show how any LaTeX template can easily be set up in org-mode in order to reap the benefits of This is useful for giving the org-mode document good structure soįor example, I have a tree with the heading Backmatter and all that it contains is theĮnd column and end document commands ( \end,type=inproceedings] #+ end_export Conclusion The :ignore: tag allows the contents of a tree or sub-tree to be exported withoutĮxporting the heading. For example, I might not want toĮxport a particular project or I might not want to export the publications section. That I do not want to export for a particular job. I tag all of my configuration subtrees with :noexport: and all of the content The :noexport: tag allows trees and/or sub-trees to not be exported into the pdf. Show how the org-mode document can be structured to make it easy to manage content. Local Configuration for Org-Mode CV Fileīefore we dive into the details of configuring and writing our Org-mode CV, I want to.Global Configuration for Org-Mode’s LaTeX Exporter.In this post I want to show how any LaTeX CV template can easily be set up in org-mode and I will achieve this code folding, TODOs, running source code, tagging sections and much, much more! Luckily, writing LaTeX documents in Org-mode is much easier and also provides all the extra features of Org-mode,Į.g. I have managed a LaTeX CV in the past and it ended up very messy. There are loads of great LaTeX CV templates out there which I want to be able use, for example, Writing my CV in Org-mode was all to appealing. I thought about making a theme for JSON Resume but now that I use Org-mode for writing all of my LaTeX documents, only export content relevant to a specific job. easily manage what content is exported,.easily export the data to a nicely formatted CV (pdf),.experience, education, achievements, etc, have all of my CV data in a single file e.g.I would much prefer a nicely formatted pdf. However, now that I have a personal website, I do not really need a html version of my CV So you could probably quite easily work this into your CV workflow. I would much prefer to manage a YAML or TOML file. JSON is just a horrible format for humans to work with you can’t even comment out lines! I also struggled exporting to a nicely formatted compact CV, and to be honest, However, when exporting to pdf/html I found that my CV data was being used slightly differently by each theme,Īnd I ended up managing multiple JSON files one for each theme I wanted to use!
I personally think it’s a great idea and I have been using it for the last couple of years. They provide a well structured format (JSON Schema) for storing your CV dataĪnd there are a range of themes that you can use to style your CV when exporting to pdf/html. Previously I was maintaining a JSON file that I could export to pdf/html using JSON Resume and HackMyResume. Over the last few years I have been trying to find the best tools for managing my CV/resume.