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The ideal is to separate content from presentation. A LaTeX resume template has done that for an extremely small proportion of all the people who have used a L
by Myrmornis 9y ago
The ideal is to separate content from presentation.
A LaTeX resume template has done that for an extremely small proportion of all the people who have used a LaTeX resume template.
- taeric 9y agoWhat makes this the ideal? I'm not saying that I want my content completely mixed in with formatting options on every word, but by and large the presentation is a part of the content of anything you do. To that end, I want it to feel natural and to be somewhat easy to reason about. Not to be absent.
- Myrmornis 9y agoI mean, this is the basis of web design, and the programmers' long-standing criticism of WYSIWYG text editing. Perhaps I worded it wrongly: content should be tightly attached to semantics, but it should be possible to switch out the particular rendering used for those semantics. LaTeX resumes always fail in that regard: for example, in the template given in this thread, the semantics of "measures of experience in different languages" is inextricably bound to the rendering choice of stars. Or even more basically, the semantics of "a job or educational position held for a period of time with summary metadata", is with a LaTeX template tightly bound to a particular layout. Of course it is possible to design a TeX/LaTeX macro system that gives you separation, but, in reality, TeX is very wonderful, but learning the guts of the underlying macros is always going to be a niche audience.
- taeric 9y agoDon't get me wrong. It is a popular taking point. I just think it is wrong now. Specifically empirically. My "hard to manage" macros have maintained better than any of my friends resumes in other formats. With basically no effort, all told.