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Yep; it’s obviously not a deal breaker/winner, but we definitely notice. I once joked that we ought to mark up candidates with LaTeX CVs, but knock them slightl
by Xophmeister 9y ago
Yep; it’s obviously not a deal breaker/winner, but we definitely notice. I once joked that we ought to mark up candidates with LaTeX CVs, but knock them slightly down if they stuck with Computer Modern :)
- sjy 9y agoHow can you tell that they used LaTeX if the CV is in PDF format, other than by guessing from the use of Computer Modern?
- blt 9y agoQuality of typesetting. Seriously.
- blt 9y agoSee e.g. the first example at http://www.zinktypografie.nl/latex.php?lang=en http://www.zinktypografie.nl/latex.php?lang=en
- saadat 9y agoLook at the PDF's "PDF Producer", "Creator", or "Application" metadata fields in a PDF reader application.
- zaarn 9y agoAfter a while you can just spot it, LaTeX has a much higher quality typesetting and layout engine than Word or other WYSIWYG on-the-fly editors. The easy way is usually to spot some of the no-no's of layouting; single words at the last line of a paragraph, sentences spanning over page breaks, spacing in block paragraphs, etc. It's easiest with letters or invoices with some text, where the spacing and word placing is most obvious but you can usually tell in CVs with less text too. Of course, sometimes Word gets lucky and does a proper layout, but I've found that it's rare that I get to see properly layouted word documents.
- pvdebbe 9y agoCrap. I like Computer Modern. :(
- lou1306 9y agoIt is not bad, and its history (as well as Metafont's) is remarkable. However, the Adobe Utopia font, available by using the fourier package, is so much better IMHO.