<story><title>Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class</title><url>https://olivierpieters.be/projects/limecv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wehrdo</author><text>This may be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like LaTeX is not an efficient way to create a resume, unless you are very skilled with LaTeX macros and can essentially create your own &amp;quot;template&amp;quot;, or modify someone else&amp;#x27;s. If you don&amp;#x27;t have those skills, you end up with a very bland, &amp;quot;stock LaTeX document&amp;quot;-looking resume, of which half the LaTeX resumes I see people share look like.&lt;p&gt;I once tried to redo my resume in LaTeX, and after finding a decent-looking template, spent a lot of time fighting it to do simple things that weren&amp;#x27;t built in, like add my GPA to my school listing. In the Limecv template, what if I don&amp;#x27;t want the &amp;quot;stats&amp;quot; bars? Better go browse through a 2000-line template that I didn&amp;#x27;t write to figure out how to remove them.&lt;p&gt;I ended up actually doing my resume in HTML&amp;#x2F;CSS, which provided me the flexibility to lay things out exactly how I wanted, which was quite nice. The main difficulty I had was getting a consistent PDF layout, as Chrome&amp;#x27;s PDF print is pretty much a black box that you have no control over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>on_and_off</author><text>I used to write my resume in Latex. It is pretty satisfying to code and then compile a document and Latex does amazing things with a document.&lt;p&gt;However it has become more and more painful to edit it.&lt;p&gt;I have moved to a simple Google Document 3 years ago.&lt;p&gt;Reasons :&lt;p&gt;- I dont really need all these advanced Latex features, I am not writing a maths book.&lt;p&gt;- Docs has everything I need in order to make a resume (tbh I have considered doing it in Photoshop to have more graphical flair but never spent the time to do so)&lt;p&gt;- I can get feedback directly in the docs.&lt;p&gt;I am not going to spend the time to do it in Latex again</text></comment>
<story><title>Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class</title><url>https://olivierpieters.be/projects/limecv</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Wehrdo</author><text>This may be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like LaTeX is not an efficient way to create a resume, unless you are very skilled with LaTeX macros and can essentially create your own &amp;quot;template&amp;quot;, or modify someone else&amp;#x27;s. If you don&amp;#x27;t have those skills, you end up with a very bland, &amp;quot;stock LaTeX document&amp;quot;-looking resume, of which half the LaTeX resumes I see people share look like.&lt;p&gt;I once tried to redo my resume in LaTeX, and after finding a decent-looking template, spent a lot of time fighting it to do simple things that weren&amp;#x27;t built in, like add my GPA to my school listing. In the Limecv template, what if I don&amp;#x27;t want the &amp;quot;stats&amp;quot; bars? Better go browse through a 2000-line template that I didn&amp;#x27;t write to figure out how to remove them.&lt;p&gt;I ended up actually doing my resume in HTML&amp;#x2F;CSS, which provided me the flexibility to lay things out exactly how I wanted, which was quite nice. The main difficulty I had was getting a consistent PDF layout, as Chrome&amp;#x27;s PDF print is pretty much a black box that you have no control over.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelmior</author><text>While some LaTeX templates are more unwieldy, in the case of Limecv, if you don&amp;#x27;t want the stats bars, just don&amp;#x27;t include the macro that adds them. It&amp;#x27;s not always so terrible.</text></comment>