[Tex/LaTex] Change color of sections in resume class

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I would like to change the color of the name on top and the titles of the rSection in "light gray". How can I do that?

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%   PACKAGES AND OTHER DOCUMENT CONFIGURATIONS
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{resume} % Use the custom resume.cls style

%------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% USED PACKAGES
%------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum,textcomp}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}


\name{firstName Name}% Your name
\address{Adress \\ City, country} % Your address
\address{(+49)~$\cdot$~(0)1111~$\cdot$~11111111 \\ name@name.com} % Your phone number and email

\begin{document}

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%   PERSONAL DATA
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\begin{rSection}{Personal Data}

{\bf Born in City, Country.} \hfill {\em Date, year}

\end{rSection}

\end{document}

Best Answer

A simple way would be to just redefine the rSection environment:

\renewenvironment{rSection}[1]{
\sectionskip
\textcolor{lightgray}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
\sectionlineskip
\hrule
\begin{list}{}{
\setlength{\leftmargin}{1.5em}
}
\item[]
}{
\end{list}
}

which yields:

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One downside of the above is that if the resume.cls file makes changes to the rSection environment you will not see them. An alternative is to redefine the \MakeUppercase macro when we are within the rSection environment.

\let\OrigRSection\rSection
\let\OrigEndRSection\endrSection
\let\OrigMakeUppercase\MakeUppercase

\renewenvironment{rSection}[1]{
    \renewcommand{\MakeUppercase}[1]{\textcolor{lightgray}{\OrigMakeUppercase{##1}}}%
    \OrigRSection{#1}%
}{%
    \OrigEndRSection%
}

Notes:

I downloaded resume.cls from https://github.com/treyhunner/resume/blob/master/resume.cls. Not sure if this is the correct one though.
I have replaced \bf with \bfseries, and \em with \emph{}. Please see Does it matter if I use \textit or \it, \bfseries or \bf, etc, and What is the difference between \em and \emph?.

Code: Redefine `rSection` environment

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{resume} % Use the custom resume.cls style

%------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% USED PACKAGES
%------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum,textcomp}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}

\renewenvironment{rSection}[1]{
\sectionskip
\textcolor{lightgray}{\MakeUppercase{#1}}
\sectionlineskip
\hrule
\begin{list}{}{
\setlength{\leftmargin}{1.5em}
}
\item[]
}{
\end{list}
}





\name{firstName Name}% Your name
\address{Address \\ City, country} % Your address
\address{(+49)~$\cdot$~(0)1111~$\cdot$~11111111 \\ name@name.com} % Your phone number and email


\begin{document}

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%   PERSONAL DATA
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\begin{rSection}{Personal Data}

{\bfseries Born in City, Country.} \hfill {\emph{Date, year}}

\end{rSection}

\end{document}

Code: Redefine `\MakeUppercase` within `rSection`:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{resume} % Use the custom resume.cls style

%------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
% USED PACKAGES
%------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{lipsum,textcomp}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
\usepackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}

\let\OrigRSection\rSection
\let\OrigEndRSection\endrSection
\let\OrigMakeUppercase\MakeUppercase

\renewenvironment{rSection}[1]{
    \renewcommand{\MakeUppercase}[1]{\textcolor{lightgray}{\OrigMakeUppercase{##1}}}%
    \OrigRSection{#1}%
}{%
    \OrigEndRSection%
}



\name{firstName Name}% Your name
\address{Address \\ City, country} % Your address
\address{(+49)~$\cdot$~(0)1111~$\cdot$~11111111 \\ name@name.com} % Your phone number and email


\begin{document}

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%   PERSONAL DATA
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\begin{rSection}{Personal Data}

{\bfseries Born in City, Country.} \hfill {\emph{Date, year}}

\end{rSection}

\end{document}

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] stackoverflow like resume based on res.cls

As requested …

But first, let me summarize some things:

\vphantom{y} doesn't add vertical space like capital letters, in your all minuscule example you could add \vphantom{Ay} for example.

The \strut is something similar by the way. It adds a zero-width vertical rule with a height (above the baseline) of .7\baselineskip and a depth (below the baseline) of .3\baselineskip.
(You get the same effect with \rule[-.3\baselineskip]{0pt}{\baselineskip}.)

Judging of the original example this was too much depth in my opinion, and as all other nodes had majuscule letter there was no need for more adjusting.
The class option a4papper gives me—to no surprise—a warning as this option is none.
Even though res is based on the article class it does not forward an option like a4paper so that I even get a warning than.
… which is the reason for using [a4paper]{article} in my examples (but you can, of course, use any class you want)
Your \hspace{-.25cm} is unneeded if you add a % at the end of the lines containing your tag. (→ What is the use of percent signs (%) at the end of lines?)
(In my comment I was wrong: The additional horizontal space doesn't come from outer sep but from the space that is inserted.)

\fontsize{0.1}{.1} doesn't work, it even gives a warning:

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmr/m/n' in size <0.1> not available 
                                                  size <5> substituted on input line 48.

font=\tiny doesn't get used, as it gets overwritten, too.
All the while you're using \scalefont{0.8} anyway. Let's just use that.
Don't use \it. (→ Does it matter if I use \textit or \it, \bfseries or \bf, etc)

Now, before we play with all the \vphantoms, \rules and \struts they are, we just make use of TikZ' own styles, namely:

text height and
text depth.

We get the most appealing output (in my eyes) when we don't use a depth (ignoring all descenders in letters like y and g) and set the height to the one of a majuscule letter. When the above mentioned TikZ styles are used the actual heights and depths of the node text are ignored.

We could mimic this output using \vphantom{A}\smash{#2} as the node text (#2 being the actual text), or, with the help of amsmath's extension of \smash, \smash[b]{#2} (b stands for bottom, i.e. only the bottom part is smashed).

TikZ' default settings of inner xsep and inner ysep of .3333em make sure that the lines have a little padding to the text. (These settings can be changed, too, of course, to get yet another output.)

To cut a long story short

Code

\newcommand{\tagf}[2][]{{%
    \scalefont{0.8}%
    \sbox0{A}%
    \tikz[baseline={(TAG.base)}]{
    \node[draw=blue!80, fill=blue!20,  rounded corners, text height=\ht0, text depth=0pt, #1] (TAG) {#2};
    }%
}}

Output

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Depths? Heights? What the …?

(\strut has problems inside a TikZ-node inside tabular so I removed it from the last column.)

Table

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Closer

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Full code

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{parskip}% to mimic res' output
\usepackage{tikz}   % loads xcolor by default
\usepackage{scalefnt}
\usepackage{amsmath}% only for the extended version of \smash
\usepackage{calc}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric}
\newcommand{\tagf}[2][]{{%
    \scalefont{0.8}%
    \sbox0{A}%
    \tikz[baseline={(TAG.base)}]{
    \node[draw=blue!80, fill=blue!20,  rounded corners, text height=\ht0, text depth=0pt, #1] (TAG) {#2};
    }%
}}
\begin{document}
Responsibilities include installation and configuration of Linux clusters and workstations
\tagf{SAMBA}%
\tagf{Red Hat}%
\tagf{Windows}%
\tagf{NFS}%
\tagf{Python}%
\tagf{Shell}%
\tagf{MySQL} %
Responsibilities include installation and configuration of Linux clusters and workstations
\par
Responsibilities include installation and configuration of Linux clusters and workstations
\tagf{Fortran95}%
\tagf{Make}%
\tagf{gcc}%
\tagf{GCC}%
\tagf{Python}
Responsibilities include installation and configuration of Linux clusters and workstations
\par

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% The following code should not be used inside your resumee! %
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\newcommand{\boxme}[2][black]{{%
    \fboxrule=.4pt%
    \fboxsep=0pt%
    {\color{#1}\fbox{\color{black}#2}}%
}}
\newcommand{\showmeheightanddepth}[2][]{%
    \global\sbox0{#2}%
    \rlap{\kern-.4em\rule[-.1pt]{\wd0+.8em}{.2pt}}% baseline
    \boxme{#2}#1 
    & \the\ht0
    & \the\dp0
    & \the\dimexpr\ht0+\dp0\relax
    & \ifx#2\strut\else\let\boxme\dontboxmeinsideTikZ%
        \tagf[text height=, text depth=]{#2}\fi
}
\newcommand{\dontboxmeinsideTikZ}[2][black]{%
    #2%
}
\edef\baselineskipinnormaltext{\the\baselineskip}
\begin{tabular}{lrrrc}
 boxed & height & depth & totalheight & Ti\emph{k}Z \\\hline
\showmeheightanddepth{ace}\\
\showmeheightanddepth{ABC}\\
\showmeheightanddepth{gy}\\
\showmeheightanddepth{Age}\\
\showmeheightanddepth{\vphantom{A}\smash{\boxme[green]{Age}}}\\
\showmeheightanddepth{\smash[b]{\boxme[green]{Age}}}\\ % needs \usepackage{amsmath}
\showmeheightanddepth[ (\texttt{strut})]{\strut}
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Horizontal lines in resume class

The text inside the resume environment is shifted right of an amount equal to \sectionwidth in respect to the \section. So you need to go back of that amount of horizontal space.

For this purpose we define a new command \fullhrulefill:

\newcommand{\fullhrulefill}{%
  \hspace*{-\sectionwidth}\hrulefill%
  }

MWE:

\documentclass{res} 

\usepackage{kantlipsum} % only for the example

\newcommand{\fullhrulefill}{%
  \hspace*{-\sectionwidth}\hrulefill%
  }

\begin{document}
\begin{resume}

\section{Education}

\kant[1]

\fullhrulefill

\section{Research Experience}

\kant[1]

\fullhrulefill

\end{resume}
\end{document}

Output:

enter image description here

Best Answer

Notes:

Code: Redefine rSection environment

Code: Redefine \MakeUppercase within rSection:

Related Solutions

[Tex/LaTex] stackoverflow like resume based on res.cls

To cut a long story short

Code

Output

Depths? Heights? What the …?

Table

Closer

Full code

[Tex/LaTex] Horizontal lines in resume class

Related Question

Code: Redefine `rSection` environment

Code: Redefine `\MakeUppercase` within `rSection`: