• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I have enjoyed switching mine to HTML format which I then generate a PDF from. The only downside is that different browsers can render stuff slightly different, but that’s normally fixable with one line css change. And it’s not like I need to update my resume constantly on different machines.

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      I was on Word, then LibreOffice Writer.
      Now thinking of making it a markdown source, with CSS styling to get an HTML based PDF. This way, the same source can be used on a webpage with different generation code.

      This seems to me, to be simpler than LATEX, but still good enough for a resume.

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        There is a standard called json-resume with a lot of generators for html and pdf or react-resume which is more like a CMS (not entirely sure about spelling, to lazy to search for it now)

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          But I need to add that I never made it work for me because they are not really good for scientific CVs

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          Interesting, but not appealing to me.
          I have already been enchanted by discount and mesmerised by kramdown.

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          kramdown and discount are 2 fun little tools.

          • kramdown is more fully featured and is a Ruby Gem.
          • discount is made in C and is more suitable if you are using it in an on-the-fly render process (∵ lesser CPU cycles), but it has lesser functionality features.