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After over a decade of occasionally updating that one ancient .docx file, I recently rebuilt my CV/resume using typst and it's been a really fun project! My res
by MerrimanInd 1y ago
After over a decade of occasionally updating that one ancient .docx file, I recently rebuilt my CV/resume using typst and it's been a really fun project! My resume is now a private repo with my personal, career, and styling data stored in TOML files. Then I can pull any interesting typst resume templates, populate the information from the TOML files by looping over arrays of jobs/projects, and populate it into the doc template. It's absolutely overkill but it was a fun project and I really enjoyed working with typst. Didn't even do a tutorial, just threw myself into the language and assumed it would be intuitive enough with some examples and it absolutely is.
- optionalsquid 1y agoDid you use an existing package or did you write something from scratch? I'm also looking at rewriting my CV in Typst, though the fact that I am happy with my current job means that it is not a very high priority task
- MerrimanInd 1y agoI used existing templates from the [typst universe repository](https://typst.app/universe/ https://typst.app/universe/) for the resume then built something much simpler from scratch for a secondary document, a sort of cover letter/case study of projects I've done. If there's interest I can maybe take some PII out of my repo and make it public. Not like there's anything wildly private in there, would just prefer to not get any more spam calls than I already do.
- optionalsquid 1y agoYou don't have to go through the effort for my sake. I was mainly interested in hearing if you had recommendations with regards to existing packages, though there's a decent chance that I'll just end up creating something from scratch