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Writing a CV/resume using LyX.

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Writing a CV/resume using LyX
1. 1.1 Files
2. 1.2 Using Jean-Marc's new CV-class
3. 1.3 Installation
4. 1.4 Building the CV example
5. 1.5 History
6. 1.6 Comments, Bugs
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Writing a CV/resume using LyX

Two methods of writing a CV are illustrated here. One is based on the Koma (article) class, and the other on Jean-Marc's CV class.

Here are some examples of how actual CVs may look:

Christian Ridderström's CV — academic format (i.e. with a list of publications etc) based on the CV class: (DVI 12kB) and (PDF 41kB).
Christian Ridderström's CV — academic format based on the CV article class: (DVI 11kB).
Nirmal Govind's CV: (DVI 14kB) and (PDF 81kB)

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Files

cv.cls — Jean-Marc's CV class.
cv_JMarc.layout — Modified version of Jean-Marc's layout-file for the CV class.
syntax.lyx — Illustrates some environments of the CV class.
academic.lyx — Source of Christian Ridderström's CV based on the CV class.
Koma-article_academic.lyx — Source of Christian Ridderström in an academic format based on the Koma article class.
chr.jpg (24kB) — Photo that is included by the CV.
chr_1st.bib (4kB) and my_publications.bib (18kB) — Bibliography (BibTeX) files.

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New files

simplecv [CTAN] - new version of Jean-Marc's CV-class.

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Using Jean-Marc's new CV-class

Work in progress!

Installation
- Installation and test build of the example (a LaTeX file).
  - From CTAN (see the section on files for a link), download the following files to a local directory:
    - simplecv.ins
    - simplecv.dtx
    - testcv.tex
  - Open a shell prompt and change to the directory to where you downloaded the files. Then execute:
```
latex simplecv.ins
```
  The result file you want is the file simplecv.cls
  - Test building the file testcv.tex by executing:
```
latex testcv
latex testcv
```
  Yes, you should run latex twice to resolve all cross-references. You should now have a file testcv.dvi that looks ok. The folder in CTAN contains a PDF that you can compare with.
Copying the class file to somewhere that LaTeX finds it.
- On my Ubuntu system, see LyX on Ubuntu, I could just place the class file in ~/texmf/tex/latex
- Do a LyX reconfigure.
- Check the document Help->LaTeX Configuration to verify that simplecv has
  Found: Yes

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Installation

Just download the class file to somewhere in LaTeX's path, and download the layout file to for instance your directory $HOME/.lyx/layouts . (You will have to restart LyX in order for LyX to find the new .layout-file).

You should now be able to download and build syntax.lyx.

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Building the CV example

If you want to try and build the CV example, download the source file, photo and bibliography-files into a directory. Then move the bibliography files (.bib) to somewhere that BibTeX will find them (specified by for instance $BIBINPUTS).

Now you should be able to open the example and build it.

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History

I wrote my CV first using the Koma article class, and had to struggle to get formatting the way I wanted it. Converting it to Jean-Marc's CV class was surprisingly easy and the class works well in my opinion.

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Comments, Bugs

I'm not sure I like that the citation numbers in the list of publications are in italic though. The only minor modification I had to do was to add the paragraph style Comment to the layout-file, since I was using those.

-- I tried to use this class on Mac OS X by putting the .cls file where the LyX .cls files are and the same for the layout. Restarted lyx but when I open the syntax.lyx file it says it can't find the class. Also, what did you mean by build the example? You mean make a .dvi out of it?? Thanks.

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