Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-10-29 Thread Karl Voit
* Tory S. Anderson wrote: > I do mine in LaTeX and haven't had a reason to change that. The same holds for me. When it comes to microtypography and optimization (squeeze the CV into 3 pages instead of 4 with a single paragraph on page 4, ...), I am much more efficient with LaTeX and without the

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?

2014-09-23 Thread Rainer M Krug
Rasmus writes: > Hi, > > Rainer M Krug writes: > > Thanks for the summary Rainer. Hope I didn't forget anything... > >> I think that org could be a perfect environment for building CVs if >> one could come up with an HOWTO and many examples how to do it - and I >> think this is going into the

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?

2014-09-23 Thread Rasmus
Rainer M Krug writes: Thanks for the summary Rainer. > I think that org could be a perfect environment for building CVs if > one could come up with an HOWTO and many examples how to do it - and I > think this is going into the right direction. I think the "right" approach is cooking up a reason

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-22 Thread Rainer M Krug
Myles English writes: > Myles English writes: > >> Nicolas Goaziou writes: >> >>> One option could be to define a specialized latex back-end dedicated to >>> moderncv class, much like "ox-koma-letter.el" does for "scrlttr2". >> >> I did actually make a start on this, I'll dig it out and put it >>

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-22 Thread Myles English
Myles English writes: > Nicolas Goaziou writes: > >> One option could be to define a specialized latex back-end dedicated to >> moderncv class, much like "ox-koma-letter.el" does for "scrlttr2". > > I did actually make a start on this, I'll dig it out and put it > somewhere accessible, soon. ..

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?

2014-09-22 Thread Nick Dokos
Rainer M Krug writes: > > I like Dan's approach as it looks relatively simple, although I still > have to look into it in detail (and as Joseph notes, there must be a > problem in the code). > > ... > Dan Griswold writes: >> ... >> >> First, a "cv" class added to org-latex-classes: >> >> (add-to

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-22 Thread Rainer M Krug
Xavier Garrido writes: > Hi Rainer, > > You can see mine https://github.com/xgarrido/org-resume that uses > org-mode to produce a LaTeX->PDF (see attached file) file as well as > an HTML version. > > Hope it gives you some ideas. I can only say *wow*! This looks seriously impressive to me. I w

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-22 Thread Rainer M Krug
Joseph Vidal-Rosset writes: > Le sam. 20 sept. 2014 à 02:49:03 , Dan Griswold a > envoyé ce message: >> Not sure anybody saw this the first time, so I'll try again, with some >> expansion. >> >> Unlike the others who've commented, I moved my CV from LaTeX to >> org-mode and I'm happy with t

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-22 Thread Rainer M Krug
Myles English writes: > Hello, > > Nicolas Goaziou writes: > >> Brady Trainor writes: >> >>> And I did have a decent export to LaTeX resume from org, but after >>> discovering moderncv, I've switched, though I will be curious to read >>> others' methods of org-to-moderncv export. >> >> One opt

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-22 Thread Rainer M Krug
Vikas Rawal writes: > I know I am being lazy in not trying it out, but if you could share a > PDF, it would give us an idea of what this gives you. Yes - an example pdf would be great. Rainer > > Vikas > > On 20-Sep-2014, at 6:19 am, Dan Griswold wrote: > >> Not sure anybody saw this the fi

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-22 Thread Rainer M Krug
Rasmus writes: > Nicolas Goaziou writes: > >> Hello, >> >> Brady Trainor writes: >> >>> And I did have a decent export to LaTeX resume from org, but after >>> discovering moderncv, I've switched, though I will be curious to read >>> others' methods of org-to-moderncv export. >> >> One option

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-22 Thread Rainer M Krug
Brady Trainor writes: > On 9/19/2014 2:18 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> Hi >> >> - How do you do it (I don't assume you write your CVs in Word?), or are >> you using LaTeX directly? > > Nice question, I will enjoy reading all the examples in this thread. > > For a bit, I tried to make org do everyt

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-22 Thread Rainer M Krug
torys.ander...@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) writes: > Very nice, John. Thanks for sharing the LaTeX! I agree - thanks. I will take a closer look later and possibly use some ideas. Rainer > > John Hendy writes: > >> Like the rest, I picked straight LaTeX, as it just felt like forcing Org to >

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?

2014-09-22 Thread Rainer M Krug
First of all, thanks to everybody so far who responded to this question. I reply to my question directly, as I am trying to sum up the replies so far (the complete thread is theoretically below). There are effectively two "schools", - using LaTeX (Tory, Andreas, John and Brady), and - using o

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-21 Thread Myles English
Hello, Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Brady Trainor writes: > >> And I did have a decent export to LaTeX resume from org, but after >> discovering moderncv, I've switched, though I will be curious to read >> others' methods of org-to-moderncv export. > > One option could be to define a specialized

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-20 Thread Xavier Garrido
Hi Rainer, You can see mine https://github.com/xgarrido/org-resume that uses org-mode to produce a LaTeX->PDF (see attached file) file as well as an HTML version. Hope it gives you some ideas. Cheers, Xavier Le 19/09/2014 11:18, Rainer M Krug a écrit : Hi I am looking for examples / templ

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-19 Thread Joseph Vidal-Rosset
Le sam. 20 sept. 2014 à 02:49:03 , Dan Griswold a envoyé ce message: > Not sure anybody saw this the first time, so I'll try again, with some > expansion. > > Unlike the others who've commented, I moved my CV from LaTeX to org-mode and > I'm happy with the results. Two things make it work we

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-19 Thread Vikas Rawal
I know I am being lazy in not trying it out, but if you could share a PDF, it would give us an idea of what this gives you. Vikas On 20-Sep-2014, at 6:19 am, Dan Griswold wrote: > Not sure anybody saw this the first time, so I'll try again, with some > expansion. > > Unlike the others who'v

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-19 Thread Dan Griswold
Not sure anybody saw this the first time, so I'll try again, with some expansion. Unlike the others who've commented, I moved my CV from LaTeX to org-mode and I'm happy with the results. Two things make it work well. First, a "cv" class added to org-latex-classes: (add-to-list '("cv" "\\document

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-19 Thread Rasmus
Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Hello, > > Brady Trainor writes: > >> And I did have a decent export to LaTeX resume from org, but after >> discovering moderncv, I've switched, though I will be curious to read >> others' methods of org-to-moderncv export. > > One option could be to define a speciali

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-19 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Brady Trainor writes: > And I did have a decent export to LaTeX resume from org, but after > discovering moderncv, I've switched, though I will be curious to read > others' methods of org-to-moderncv export. One option could be to define a specialized latex back-end dedicated to modern

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-19 Thread Brady Trainor
On 9/19/2014 2:18 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi - How do you do it (I don't assume you write your CVs in Word?), or are you using LaTeX directly? Nice question, I will enjoy reading all the examples in this thread. For a bit, I tried to make org do everything, like export resumes to Word, Writ

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-19 Thread Tory S. Anderson
Very nice, John. Thanks for sharing the LaTeX! John Hendy writes: > Like the rest, I picked straight LaTeX, as it just felt like forcing Org to > do something unnatural, in my opinion. At least, if you get into any sort > of formatting stuff, it just didn't feel right. Here's some other mailing

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-19 Thread Dan Griswold
Unlike the others, I moved my CV from LaTeX to org-mode and I'm happy with the results. Two things make it work well. First, a "cv" class added to org-latex-classes: (add-to-list '("cv" "\\documentclass[10pt]{article}\n\\usepackage[margin=.75in]{geometry}\n%\\usepackage{palatino}\n\\usepackage{se

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-19 Thread Andreas Kiermeier
Hi Rainer, like Tory I prepare my CV using latex directly. I've been using "moderncv" for several years now and have been quite happy with it (though that was before I've started using org). But even now, I can't see how using org, would add to what I already have. Mind you, I tend to add to my C

Re: [O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-19 Thread Tory S. Anderson
I do mine in LaTeX and haven't had a reason to change that. I keep a "Master" CV/resumé with all the gratuitous information in all categories, then make subdirs for each submission and the trimmed-down versions of my resume that I sent out. At this stage in my career–where I am still tailoring

[O] CV in orgmode for export to pdf (and html?)

2014-09-19 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I am looking for examples / templates for CVs written using org, as I decided to ose org for my CV. I fund this oldish conversation http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-04/msg00096.html and these two templates for using org to write a CV: https://github.com/punchagan/resume