[Tex/LaTex] Modern {CV} questions

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I am using the modern CV package to create a CV in Latex. Unfortunately I am in a bit of a rush, so couldn't create a MWE, but hopefully one eagle-eyed user can identify where I've gone wrong!

I just have two errors with my code. I'm just trying to insert bullet points into CV. Using a previous answer, I inserted the code but it is not working:

\cventry{Feb 2012 - Nov 2014}{Ecnomics and Statistics Tutor}{University of Cape Town}{Cape Town}{}
\begin{itemize}[label=\textbullet]
\item{\textbf{Statistics}:}Prepared tutorials, marked tests and projects and participating in computer lab sessions.
\item{\textbf{Economics}}: Ensured timely upload of documents and other administrative duties
\end{itemize}

Secondly, the following code won't run, and I have no idea why, especially since the section below it (the Computer Skills section) works…

\section{Awards}
\cvline{UCT Masters Research Scholarship}{2013 - 2014}
\cvline{Commerce Faculty Merit Scholarship} {2010 - 2012}
\cvline{Dean's Merit List (obtaining an aggregate of over 70%)} {2009 - 2012} 

\section{Computer skills}
\cvline{Intermediate}{\small Stata, \LaTeX}
\cvline{Expert}{\small Word, Excel, Powerpoint}

Best Answer

You have two errors.

  1. In the line

    \cvline{Dean's Merit List (obtaining an aggregate of over 70%)} {2009 - 2012}

    replace % with \%

  2. \cventry has six arguments and you are giving it only five. So write

    \cventry{Feb 2012 - Nov 2014}{Ecnomics and Statistics Tutor}{University of Cape Town}{Cape Town}{}{}

    instead of

    \cventry{Feb 2012 - Nov 2014}{Ecnomics and Statistics Tutor}{University of Cape Town}{Cape Town}{}

MWE:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}

\usepackage{enumitem}

\moderncvstyle{casual}
\moderncvcolor{blue}

\name{John}{Doe}

\begin{document}

\section{Awards}
\cvline{UCT Masters Research Scholarship}{2013 - 2014}
\cvline{Commerce Faculty Merit Scholarship} {2010 - 2012}
\cvline{Dean's Merit List (obtaining an aggregate of over 70\%)} {2009 - 2012}

\section{Computer skills}
\cvline{Intermediate}{\small Stata, \LaTeX}
\cvline{Expert}{\small Word, Excel, Powerpoint}

\cventry{Feb 2012 - Nov 2014}{Ecnomics and Statistics Tutor}{University of Cape Town}{Cape Town}{}{}
\begin{itemize}[label=\textbullet]
\item{\textbf{Statistics}:}Prepared tutorials, marked tests and projects and participating in computer lab sessions.
\item{\textbf{Economics}}: Ensured timely upload of documents and other administrative duties
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

enter image description here

EDIT (per OP's comment)

If you want to align the itemize items with the entries above them, add the following option to your itemize:

leftmargin=\hintscolumnwidth+\separatorcolumnwidth

\hintscolumnwidth is the width of the first column of a \cventry and \separatorcolumnwidth is the separator width. Note that this can be done this way (without \dimexpr) because moderncv loads calc.

MWE:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}

\usepackage{enumitem}

\moderncvstyle{casual}
\moderncvcolor{blue}

\name{John}{Doe}

\begin{document}

\section{Awards}
\cvline{UCT Masters Research Scholarship}{2013 - 2014}
\cvline{Commerce Faculty Merit Scholarship} {2010 - 2012}
\cvline{Dean's Merit List (obtaining an aggregate of over 70\%)} {2009 - 2012}

\section{Computer skills}
\cvline{Intermediate}{\small Stata, \LaTeX}
\cvline{Expert}{\small Word, Excel, Powerpoint}

\cventry{Feb 2012 - Nov 2014}{Ecnomics and Statistics Tutor}{University of Cape Town}{Cape Town}{}{}
\begin{itemize}[label=\textbullet,leftmargin=\hintscolumnwidth+\separatorcolumnwidth]
\item{\textbf{Statistics}:}Prepared tutorials, marked tests and projects and participating in computer lab sessions.
\item{\textbf{Economics}}: Ensured timely upload of documents and other administrative duties
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

Output:

enter image description here

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