I just created my first document in LaTeX (a resume) and while I'm familiar with good practices in programming, I'm not familiar with what constitutes good practices in a markup language like LaTeX. Below is the code for my resume (content edited for privacy).
I'd like to know which style/formatting practices I used are good, and which are bad. For example, I'm guessing that using $\bullet$ .... \\
instead of an itemize
is not good practice, but I wasn't sure how to embed an itemize
within cvlist
without creating an extra space between the list and the content above the list.
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside]{report}
% margins
\usepackage[top=1in, bottom=1in, left=0.5in, right=0.5in]{geometry}
% arranging headers spacing
\newcommand\textbox[1]{\parbox{.333\textwidth}{#1}}
\usepackage[NoDate, LabelsAligned]{currvita}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
% remove page number
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{cv}{}
% distance between labels and body
\setlength{\cvlabelwidth}{22mm}
% heading
\noindent\textbox{Term Address:\hfill}\textbox{\hfil \LARGE \textbf{Name}\hfil}\textbox{\hfill Home Address:}\\
\noindent\textbox{Street \hfill}\textbox{\hfil email@email.com \hfil} \textbox{\hfill Street}\\
\noindent\textbox{City \hfill}\textbox{\hfil (555)-555-5555 \hfil}\textbox{\hfill Address}
% horizontal line
\noindent\rule{\textwidth}{0.3mm}
% Education
\begin{cvlist}{}
\item[\textbf{Education}]
\textbf{School} \hfill Cambridge, MA\\
\textit{Candidate for Bachelor of Science in Everything} \hfill June 2099 (expected)\\
Relevant Coursework: Cooking (Fall `13), Puppetry \hfill GPA: 5.0/5.0\\
for Fun (Fall `13), Probability and Stuff (Fall `13),\\
Differential Differentiation
\end{cvlist}
% Experience
\begin{cvlist}{}
\item[\textbf{Experience}]
\textbf{Company} \hfill City\\
\textit{Position} \hfill June - August 2015\\
$\bullet$ Task\\
$\bullet$ Task
\textbf{Company} \hfill City\\
\textit{Position} \hfill January - May 1908\\
$\bullet$ Task\\
$\bullet$ Task\\
$\bullet$ Task
\end{cvlist}
%Leadership
\begin{cvlist}{}
\item[\textbf{Leadership}]
\textbf{Organization} \hfill City\\
\textit{Position} \hfill August 2000 - present\\
$\bullet$ Task\\
$\bullet$ Task
\textbf{Program} \hfill City \\
\textit{Position} \hfill August 2055 - present\\
$\bullet$ Task\\
$\bullet$ Task
\textbf{Organization} \hfill City\\
\textit{Position} \hfill December 1856 - June 2010\\
$\bullet$ Task\\
$\bullet$ Task\\
$\bullet$ Task
\end{cvlist}
%Skills
\begin{cvlist}{}
\item[\textbf{Skills}]
Everything, \LaTeX
\end{cvlist}
\end{cv}
\end{document}
Best Answer
More detailed explanation, please read the
enumitem
manual by invokingtexdoc enumitem
from your terminal.