Initially, I was hoping to find an ONLY Org-mode template for my CV and Cover Letter and I failed to find any. I did find Org + LaTex CVs but most of them had a lot of LaTex syntax. Thus, here I have tried to reduce the amount of LaTex syntax and use as much Org syntax as possible. I must say Org-mode and LaTex complement each other really well as you will see with these CVs.
It is also an attempt to substitute the Two Column CV structure of MS Word and Libre Office. Also to note that other CVs have either totally ignored the Org Table functionality or used it in a very limited way. I hope these CVs will help divert some attention towards the combination of Org Table and LaTex for writing beautiful CVs.
The keybinding C-x 8 SPC will insert one hard space, if you want to insert multiple or 10 hard spaces then for 10 do C-u 10 C-x 8 SPC or for two do C-u 02 C-x 8 SPC
- To compile the CVs successfully, you need the packages used in the Org files.
- If you have space 6 GB, I would recommend installing the complete Tex-live to save yourself the mess of missing packages:
In Ubuntu
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install texlive-full
;; ____________org-latex-process____________
;; Coloured LaTeX using Minted
(setq-default
org-latex-listings 'minted
org-latex-packages-alist '(("" "minted"))
;;Org-export settings depends alot on the pdf-compiler
org-latex-pdf-process
'("latexmk -f -pdf -%latex -bibtex -interaction=nonstopmode -output-directory=%o %f")
)
;; ____________org-export-and-delete-extra-files____________
(setq-default
org-export-latex-hyperref-format "\\ref{%s}"
org-latex-remove-logfiles t
org-latex-logfiles-extensions
(quote
("lof" "lot" "tex~" "aux" "idx" "log" "out" "toc" "nav" "snm" "vrb" "dvi" "fdb_latexmk" "blg" "brf" "fls" "entoc" "ps" "spl" "bbl" "fls" "lol" "equ" "bcf" "tex" "pyg"
)))
(defun org-latex-export-to-pdf-and-clean ()
"Org-latex-export and delete files mentioned in org-latex-logfiles-extensions!"
(interactive)
(when (eq major-mode 'org-mode)
(org-open-file (org-latex-export-to-pdf))
(delete-file (concat (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-name)) ".run.xml"))
(delete-file (concat (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-name)) ".synctex.gz"))
(delete-file "texput.log")
(delete-directory "auto" 't)
(delete-directory (concat "_minted-" (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-name))) 't)
))
(global-set-key [f6] (lambda () (interactive) (org-latex-export-to-pdf-and-clean)))
- If you comment out a section, it will disrupt the table format. To avoid this either try some way out or simply move the section somewhere else. As in CV 1, you can use
src commentat the end of file. - Right now, I do not know how to export the CVs or the Cover Letter outside Emacs environment. It would be great if any one can tell how to.