resume-commands.tex

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% Some commands for making a LaTeX resume
% =======================================

% Commented ;)

% See the README.md file for more info



% \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}  % i do this in the document itself


%%% LOAD AND SETUP PACKAGES

\usepackage[a4paper,margin=0.75in, top=0.60in, bottom=0.60in]{geometry}
\usepackage{mdwlist}   % to finetue lists with a inline heading and indented content (see Experiences)
\usepackage{multicol}  % for multiple column text
\usepackage{relsize}   % for \textscale, which I prefer over \sc (small caps), see my \acr command
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\hyphenation{Some-long-word}

\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}  % yups, URLs everwhere...
\usepackage{xcolor}  % ... and color them links
\definecolor{dark-blue}{rgb}{0.15,0.15,0.4}
\hypersetup{colorlinks,linkcolor={dark-blue},citecolor={dark-blue},urlcolor={dark-blue}}

\usepackage{ifxetex}
\ifxetex
  \usepackage{fontspec}
  \setmainfont
    [ ExternalLocation ,
      Mapping          = tex-text ,
      Numbers          = OldStyle ,
      Ligatures        = {Common,Contextual} ,
      BoldFont         = texgyrepagella-bold.otf ,
      ItalicFont       = texgyrepagella-italic.otf ,
      BoldItalicFont   = texgyrepagella-bolditalic.otf ]
    {texgyrepagella-regular.otf}
  % Comment out the previous statement and uncomment the following line to use the
  % Linux Libertine font (it has nice lignatures).
  % Make sure to have the `ttf-linux-libertine` package installed on Ubuntu.
%  \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text, Numbers=OldStyle, Ligatures={Common,Contextual}]{Linux Libertine O}
  \usepackage[protrusion]{microtype}  % needs an experimental and impposible to find package for xetex
\else
  \usepackage{tgpagella}  % this case we lack lower case numbers, ligatures and some typographic niceties
  \usepackage[expansion,protrusion]{microtype}
\fi



%%% DOCUMENT WIDE STYLING

\pagestyle{empty}
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{0em}
\xspaceskip7pt  % some more spacing between sentences (use "i.e.\ " or "with SQL\@. " in case of errors)


%%% CUSTOM COMMANDS

% main title (name) with subtitle (date)
\newcommand*\maintitle[2]{\centerline{\LARGE \textbf{#1}}}

% title for the root sections (experience, education, etc) of the resume
\newcommand*\roottitle[1]{\subsection*{#1}\vspace{-0.3em}\nopagebreak[4]}

% acr command, to quickly mark acronyms for special formatting
\newcommand*\acr[1]{\textscale{.85}{#1}}

% pretty bullet (created from a much smaller centerdot), \sbull contains its spacing
\newcommand*\bull{\raisebox{-0.365em}[-1em][-1em]{\textscale{4}{$\cdot$}}}
\newcommand*\sbull{\ \ \bull \ \ }
\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{\sbull}

% it seems not to work when simply using \parindent...
\newlength{\newparindent}
\addtolength{\newparindent}{\parindent}

% a double \parindent...
\newlength{\doubleparindent}
\addtolength{\doubleparindent}{\parindent}
\addtolength{\doubleparindent}{\parindent}

% indentsection style, used for sections that aren't already in lists
% that need indentation to the level of all text in the document
\newenvironment{indentsection}%
{\begin{list}{}%
  {\setlength{\leftmargin}{\newparindent}\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}\setlength{\topsep}{0pt}}%
}
{\end{list}}

% headerrow command, used for a new employer
\newcommand{\headedsection}[3]{\nopagebreak[4]\begin{indentsection}\item[]\textscale{1.1}{#1}\hfill#2#3\end{indentsection}\nopagebreak[4]}

% subheaderrow command, used for a new position
\newcommand{\headedsubsection}[3]{\nopagebreak[4]\begin{indentsection}\item[]\textbf{#1}\hfill\emph{#2}#3\end{indentsection}\nopagebreak[4]}

% body text (indented)
\newcommand{\bodytext}[1]{\nopagebreak[4]\begin{indentsection}\item[]#1\end{indentsection}\pagebreak[2]}

% \vspace variaties
\newcommand{\breakvspace}[1]{\pagebreak[2]\vspace{#1}\pagebreak[2]}
\newcommand{\nobreakvspace}[1]{\nopagebreak[4]\vspace{#1}\nopagebreak[4]}

% \spacedhrule a horizontal line with some vertical space before and after it
\newcommand{\spacedhrule}[2]{\breakvspace{#1}\hrule\nobreakvspace{#2}}

% \inlineheadsection command, used for a new employer
\newcommand{\inlineheadsection}[2]{\begin{basedescript}{\setlength{\leftmargin}{\doubleparindent}}\item[\hspace{\newparindent}\textbf{#1}]#2\end{basedescript}\vspace{-13pt}}

% apo command, for an apostrophe that looks good on old style nums
\newcommand{\apo}{\raisebox{-.18ex}{'}{\hspace{-.1em}}}

% non space that allows line breaks
\newcommand*{\nsp}{\hskip0pt}

%%% MORE SPECIFIC COMMANDS

% CPP command (found it in some corner of the internet and decided to use it)
\newcommand{\CPP}{C\nolinebreak[4]\hspace{-.04em}\raisebox{.20ex}{\footnotesize\bf++} }

% % these are in the document itself:
%
% \begin{document}
% ...the document text...
% \end{document}