Using org-mode to write an academic curriculum vitae (CV)

Using org-mode to write an academic curriculum vitae (CV)

[Jeff Horn]

Hey orgsters,

I've seen a few messages in the gmane archive, but I can't tell how
many people are using org-mode for this purpose.

1) Do you use org-mode to maintain your CV?
2) If so, do you use a LaTeX export template?
3) If so, mind sharing? :)

Thanks in advance! I'm tempted to just publish my CV as plain text or,
better yet, in YAML. But, I'm not sure economists would quite
appreciate the statement that would make...

Jeff

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George Mason University

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Re: Using org-mode to write an academic curriculum vitae (CV)

[Jeff Horn]

If ReStructuredText can do it, seems like org could, too.

http://cl.ly/3fTM

RST probably uses a source to HTML to PDF workflow. So, this seems
feasible enough.


On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey orgsters,
>
> I've seen a few messages in the gmane archive, but I can't tell how
> many people are using org-mode for this purpose.
>
> 1) Do you use org-mode to maintain your CV?
> 2) If so, do you use a LaTeX export template?
> 3) If so, mind sharing? :)
>
> Thanks in advance! I'm tempted to just publish my CV as plain text or,
> better yet, in YAML. But, I'm not sure economists would quite
> appreciate the statement that would make...
>
> Jeff
>
> --
> Jeffrey Horn
> Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
> George Mason University
>
> (704) 271-4797
> jhorn@gmu.edu
> jrhorn424@gmail.com
>
> http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/
>



-- 
Jeffrey Horn
Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
George Mason University

(704) 271-4797
jhorn@gmu.edu
jrhorn424@gmail.com

http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/

Re: Using org-mode to write an academic curriculum vitae (CV)

[Oscar Carlsson]

Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> writes:

> Hey orgsters,
>
> I've seen a few messages in the gmane archive, but I can't tell how
> many people are using org-mode for this purpose.
>
> 1) Do you use org-mode to maintain your CV?
> 2) If so, do you use a LaTeX export template?
> 3) If so, mind sharing? :)
>
> Thanks in advance! I'm tempted to just publish my CV as plain text or,
> better yet, in YAML. But, I'm not sure economists would quite
> appreciate the statement that would make...
>
> Jeff

I use the =moderncv= class for LaTeX, no org-export or such. I think the
effort of constructing a working org->special class LaTeX-exporter is a
lot greater than learning to use the LaTeX-class properly. The
=moderncv= is bundled with at least TeX Live, not sure about MiKTeX.

Otherwise, Dario Taraborelli has a nice template for making an academic
cv, read about it on his page:

http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex

Myriad Pro is a very fancy and nice looking font for this kind of
things, just a tip.


Oscar

[OT: rST] was Re: Re: Using org-mode to write an academic curriculum vitae (CV)

[Christian Moe]

On 12/16/10 11:41 PM, Jeff Horn wrote:

> RST probably uses a source to HTML to PDF workflow. So, this seems
> feasible enough.

Bit off-topic, but AFAIK, to produce PDFs rST/docutils generally goes 
through LaTeX, not HTML. There's also a third-party tool using 
reportlab to write a PDF directly without LaTeX.

cm

Re: [OT: rST] was Re: Re: Using org-mode to write an academic curriculum vitae (CV)

[Jeff Horn]

Nice info to have, thanks! I formed my opinion from the resulting PDF
from this page: http://cl.ly/3fM1

Seems like it uses reportlab. http://code.google.com/p/rst2pdf/

With the new pandoc support, it's probably too late for an org versus
RST flame war... what a shame! :-P

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com> wrote:
> On 12/16/10 11:41 PM, Jeff Horn wrote:
>
>> RST probably uses a source to HTML to PDF workflow. So, this seems
>> feasible enough.
>
> Bit off-topic, but AFAIK, to produce PDFs rST/docutils generally goes
> through LaTeX, not HTML. There's also a third-party tool using reportlab to
> write a PDF directly without LaTeX.
>
> cm
>



-- 
Jeffrey Horn
Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
George Mason University

(704) 271-4797
jhorn@gmu.edu
jrhorn424@gmail.com

http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/

Re: Using org-mode to write an academic curriculum vitae (CV)

[Stefan Vollmar]

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Dear Jeff,

On 16.12.2010, at 23:25, Jeff Horn wrote:

> Hey orgsters,
> 
> I've seen a few messages in the gmane archive, but I can't tell how
> many people are using org-mode for this purpose.
> 
> 1) Do you use org-mode to maintain your CV?

We have developed an org-based solution so members of our institute can put their CV online. There are several reasons I chose org-mode - not least because it made people take a look at it :-)  See here: http://www.nf.mpg.de/cv-howto/cv-en.html
However, this is limited to HTML.

Warm regards,
 Stefan

> 2) If so, do you use a LaTeX export template?
> 3) If so, mind sharing? :)
> 
> Thanks in advance! I'm tempted to just publish my CV as plain text or,
> better yet, in YAML. But, I'm not sure economists would quite
> appreciate the statement that would make...
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -- 
> Jeffrey Horn
> Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
> George Mason University
> 
> (704) 271-4797
> jhorn@gmu.edu
> jrhorn424@gmail.com
> 
> http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/
> 
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Re: Re: Using org-mode to write an academic curriculum vitae (CV)

[Stefan Vollmar]

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Dear Oscar,

On 17.12.2010, at 09:20, Oscar Carlsson wrote:

> I use the =moderncv= class for LaTeX, no org-export or such. I think the
> effort of constructing a working org->special class LaTeX-exporter is a
> lot greater than learning to use the LaTeX-class properly. The
> =moderncv= is bundled with at least TeX Live, not sure about MiKTeX.
> 
> Otherwise, Dario Taraborelli has a nice template for making an academic
> cv, read about it on his page:
> 
> http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex

excellent link, thank you!

> Myriad Pro is a very fancy and nice looking font for this kind of
> things, just a tip.


Myriad Pro is indeed also one of my favourites, however, one should add that this is a commercial font available from Adobe. These days, it is bundled with Adobe's Illustrator CS package.

Warm regards,
 Stefan
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Head of IT group
Max-Planck-Institut für neurologische Forschung
Gleuelerstr. 50, 50931 Köln, Germany
Tel.: +49-221-4726-213  FAX +49-221-4726-298
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Re: Using org-mode to write an academic curriculum vitae (CV)

[Oscar Carlsson]

Stefan Vollmar <vollmar@nf.mpg.de> writes:

> Dear Oscar,
>
> On 17.12.2010, at 09:20, Oscar Carlsson wrote:
>
>> I use the =moderncv= class for LaTeX, no org-export or such. I think the
>> effort of constructing a working org->special class LaTeX-exporter is a
>> lot greater than learning to use the LaTeX-class properly. The
>> =moderncv= is bundled with at least TeX Live, not sure about MiKTeX.
>> 
>> Otherwise, Dario Taraborelli has a nice template for making an academic
>> cv, read about it on his page:
>> 
>> http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex
>
> excellent link, thank you!
>
>> Myriad Pro is a very fancy and nice looking font for this kind of
>> things, just a tip.
>
>
> Myriad Pro is indeed also one of my favourites, however, one should
> add that this is a commercial font available from Adobe. These days,
> it is bundled with Adobe's Illustrator CS package.
>
> Warm regards,
>  Stefan


<off-topic> 
Actually, since I hadn't had my morning coffee when writing
that mail, I mistyped. I ment Minion Pro, not Myriad Pro. Myriad Pro
goes *great* with Minion Pro, and I *really* recommend using it with the
=microtype= package in LaTeX. But now I'm very much OT.

However, Minion and Myriad are actually bundled with Adobe Acrobat
Reader. I'm not too sure about licensing and such, but the fonts can be
found somewhere in the Acrobat Reader-directory. In their otf-versions.
</off-topic>


Oscar