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I think this need not be the case. When creating this, I wanted it to look good and the way I wanted it. Not make it scream "LaTeX". For a CV, Computer Modern
by opieters 10y ago
I think this need not be the case. When creating this, I wanted it to look good and the way I wanted it. Not make it scream "LaTeX".
For a CV, Computer Modern might be more apt since there's also more text on it. But again, why make it scream LaTeX if one can do it more subtle and make it more personal at the same time?
Do note that I have a LaTeX PDF style CV as well, but it's not linked in the article (nor available online).
- bhickey 10y agoI edit a genre fiction and we do all our layout in XeTeX. I picked it because it's the right tool for the job, and I don't know PageMaker. The colophon calls attention to it because I think it's helpful to tell others how you made something (typefaces, tools, etc.) rather than for nerd cred. https://www.aliterate.org/aliterate-page47.pdf https://www.aliterate.org/aliterate-page47.pdf The typefaces are Minion and Myriad.
- eriknstr 10y agoWhen I copy text from your PDF it comes out all garbled. Does this happen to others as well? Is it intentional; some form of copy protection?
- bhickey 10y agoHuh, totally weird. Maybe it's an encoding issue? The character appear to be getting shifted by -39 (ex. c 143 ->D 104) I never noticed because I'm typesetting for print.
- andrewshadura 10y agoI think you need to use some PDF package to have the encoding set correctly. I had the same issue in the past, but I don't remember how I solved it.
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- jimhefferon 10y agoDon't know about the parent's intentions, but making the PDF from LaTeX copy-able is mostly a matter of putting this in the preamble. \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} See also http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/64198/121234 http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/64198/121234 and http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/119718/121234 http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/119718/121234.
- adrienne 10y agoPageMaker has been dead software for like 10 years now, fwiw. InDesign is the modern replacement.
- geeio 10y agoI enjoyed that snippet, what is it from?
- ulrikrasmussen 10y agoSince you said you were editing this: Is "horribly familiar horribly familiar" a double typo?
- jessriedel 10y ago> why make it scream LaTeX if one can do it more subtle and make it more personal at the same time? Because the point of a business card is to effectively signal your impressiveness.
- cderwin 10y agoIs LaTeX actually impressive to the average business client (i.e. someone without technical knowledge)?
- gumby 10y agoIt's like a secret handshake. This comment could sound sarcastic but it's not. Even that marketing manager could be a nerd, and it would be awesome to find out.
- wtbob 10y agoFWIW, my $BOSS-2 had a PhD, loved LaTeX and even set one of our lower-level guys on writing all our company-internal docs in LaTeX. It actually worked out pretty well. I imagine that an obviously-LaTeX resume (look for the ligatures, the correct spacing between sentences vice after periods, the clean, consistent grey across the page, the bold, clean margins) would play especially well with him. As you might guess from the preceding sentence, it'd probably play pretty well with me, too!
- mrkgnao 10y ago> vice after periods Is vice Latin? It reminds me of pace (because of the "shape" of the word, haha), but I guess it means something akin to except?
- yorwba 10y agoI found a definition that fits https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vice#Derived_terms_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vice#Derived_terms_2 So apparently what was meant is correct spacing between sentences instead of after periods
- irfansharif 10y ago> Do note that I have a LaTeX PDF style CV as well, but it's not linked in the article (nor available online). any particular reason why? i for one would love to see it.
- opieters 10y agoAt the moment the code is pretty ugly and there's a bit of personal information (e.g. phone number) I don't want to post online. I might write a blog post on creating a custom CV, but that's for some time in the future ;) (not really sure when)
- jilljennV 10y agoMy two cents using pandoc, LuaLaTeX (or XeLaTeX) and few TeX hacks. http://jill-jenn.net/résumé.pdf http://jill-jenn.net/résumé.pdf
- Manozco 10y agoIf you want to see one in LateX, here is mine: http://manu.vives.fr/ http://manu.vives.fr/
- nextos 10y agoExactly. Good TeX should simply yield to good typography. Nice ligations, etc. I dont like Computer Modern too much. I am very fond of Gentium [1]. For math, I love Euler [2], which is used in Concrete Mathematics. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentium [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMS_Euler
- kzrdude 10y agoDoesn't Euler look a tad cartoony to you? I guess that goes away when you are used to it.
- nextos 10y agoIt does. It is intended to mimic handwriting in blackboards. I use it for slides when teaching or presenting to informal audiences. If you don't like it, a good alternative to Computer Modern is Latin Modern. A nice derivative which is not so thin. Reading long Computer Modern texts gets a bit tiring for my eyes. I think some editors like LyX default to Latin Modern instead of Computer Modern. Aside, The Art of Prolog uses an amazing Lucida variant. It'd be my favorite for math texts if it was free.
- kaeluka 10y agoI like Gentium. Thanks for the tip! > Good TeX should simply yield to good typography. Making it look like tech can make it appear like you're one of the in-crowd. Although I personally try to avoid exactly that, I can see it being an advantage in -- for example -- CVs. Fwiw, my CV is also done in LaTex. I hope it doesn't show too much: http://stbr.me/cv http://stbr.me/cv
- zeamaize 10y agoThen why do it in TeX as opposed to Inkscape?