Dear org-mode community,
A year ago, there was a thread here, started by Rainer Krug, on using org-mode to produce nice looking CVs.
I had contributed once to that thread, offering a broken example of what I do. Then I dropped out of sight.
Now I'm finally getting around to filling in the blanks, should anyone still be interested.
There are two pieces to my solution: first, setting up org-mode with a new latex class, "cv"; and then including certain lines at the top of the org file that contains the CV.
Here's are some elisp commands that will effect the first step:
(require 'ox-latex)
(add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
'("cv" "\\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\\usepackage[margin=.75in]{geometry}
\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\\usepackage{sectsty}
\\sectionfont{\\normalsize\\fontfamily{phv}\\slshape}
\\renewcommand*\\oldstylenums[1]{{\\fontfamily{fxlj}\\selectfont #1}}"
("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}"))
t)
(customize-variable 'org-latex-classes)
then save the customization.
And here's what I include at the top of my
cv.org:
#+OPTIONS: author:nil timestamp:nil
#+TITLE:
#+DATE:
#+LaTeX_CLASS: cv
#+BEGIN_LATEX
\begin{flushleft}
\bfseries\Large Curriculum Vitae\hfill Daniel M. Griswold\normalfont
\end{flushleft}
\vspace{-12pt}%
\begin{flushright}
69 Stratton Road\\
Rochester, NY 14610\\
(585) xxx-xxxx\\
address@hidden\\
\hrulefill
\end{flushright}
#+END_LATEX
Within the org file, I use top level headings (single bullet) for major sections, such as:
* Education
* Areas of Specialization
* Areas of Competence
* Employment History
* Publications
* Honors and Awards
and then within each of those sections I use unordered lists for the relevant details, such as
* Education
- Ph. D., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 2010
- M. Div., Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, 1991
- A. B., Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 1986
With all this in place, I export to pdf and end up with something like the attached pdf.
cvdemo.pdf