[Tex/LaTex] Resume Bullet Point Alignment

cvhorizontal alignmentitemize

\documentclass[letterpaper,11pt]{article}

%-----------------------------------------------------------
\usepackage[empty]{fullpage}
\usepackage{color}
\definecolor{mygrey}{gray}{0.80}
\raggedbottom
\raggedright
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{0in}

% Adjust margins to 0.5in on all sides
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-0.5in}
\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{-0.5in}
\addtolength{\textwidth}{1.0in}
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-0.5in}
\addtolength{\textheight}{1.0in}

%-----------------------------------------------------------
%Custom commands
\newcommand{\resitem}[1]{\item #1 \vspace{-2pt}}
\newcommand{\resheading}[1]{{\large \colorbox{mygrey}{\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}{\textbf{#1 \vphantom{p\^{E}}}}\end{minipage}}}}
\newcommand{\ressubheading}[4]{
\begin{tabular*}{7.0in}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
        \textbf{#1} & #2 \\
        \textit{#3} & \textit{#4} \\
\end{tabular*}\vspace{-6pt}}
%-----------------------------------------------------------


\begin{document}

\begin{tabular*}{7.5in}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
\textbf{\large Name}  & Phone Number \\
address &  email \\
township, state  zip code& website\\
\end{tabular*}
\\

\vspace{0.1in}

\resheading{Education}
\begin{itemize}
\item
    \ressubheading{University}{address}{degree}{grad date}

\end{itemize}

\resheading{Personal Projects}
\begin{itemize}
\item
    \ressubheading{Project 1}{address}{extra line}{date}
    \begin{itemize}
        \resitem{}
        \resitem{}
    \end{itemize}
\item   
    \ressubheading{Project 2}{address}{extra line}{date}
    \begin{itemize}
        \resitem{}
        \resitem{}
    \end{itemize}
\item
    \ressubheading{Project 3}{address}{extra line}{date}
    \begin{itemize}
        \resitem{}
        \resitem{}
    \end{itemize}
\item   
    \ressubheading{Project 4}{address}{extra line}{date}
    \begin{itemize}
        \resitem{}
        \resitem{}
    \end{itemize}

\end{itemize}

\resheading{Skills}

\begin{description}
\item[Languages:]


\item[Miscellaneous:]

\end{description}

\resheading{Open Source Projects}



\end{document}

Using a template I found online originally by David Grant.

I'm trying to align the bullet point with each project title in the Personal Project section and the Education section while also removing the "extra line" written under the project title. When I manually remove the extra line beneath the project title the space still stays there and the dashes looks unaligned. I would also like to remove the address and date that is aligned on the right side in the projects section. How would I go about doing all this?

Thank you for your help!

Best Answer

A first starter, aligning the entries with the bullet and removing the address and date fields for the project entries.

I did not address the issues of manipulating the page geometry parameters.

The alignment of the entry an the bullet provided by \item can be done with \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}[t]{...} -- the [t] parameter indicates top alignment, contrary to the standard center alignment when omitted!

The address and date fields can just be left empty in the relevant calls -- if more occurences of \ressubheading should be changed, it is better to use a different command rather.

The spacing below the gray headings are not caused by the gray headings -- it is the cause of the \topsep value from itemize -- the vertical spacing before and after an enumerate or itemize environment. The value is the same for top and bottom! Using enumitem package it can be changed to any value with, say, \setlist[itemize]{topsep=6pt}.

\documentclass[letterpaper,11pt]{article}

%-----------------------------------------------------------
\usepackage[empty]{fullpage}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\definecolor{mygrey}{gray}{0.80}
\raggedbottom
\raggedright
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{0in}

% Adjust margins to 0.5in on all sides
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-0.5in}
\addtolength{\evensidemargin}{-0.5in}
\addtolength{\textwidth}{1.0in}
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-0.5in}
\addtolength{\textheight}{1.0in}

%-----------------------------------------------------------
%Custom commands
\newcommand{\resitem}[1]{\item #1 \vspace{-2pt}}
\newcommand{\resheading}[1]{%
  {\large \colorbox{mygrey}{\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}{\textbf{#1 \vphantom{p\^{E}}}}\end{minipage}}}%
}
\newcommand{\ressubheading}[4]{
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}[t]{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
        \textbf{#1} & #2 \\
        \textit{#3} & \textit{#4} \\
\end{tabularx}\vspace{-6pt}}
%-----------------------------------------------------------
\usepackage{enumitem}% For \setlist...
\setlist[itemize]{topsep=6pt}% Change for all levels of itemize!
\begin{document}

\begin{tabular*}{7.5in}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
\textbf{\large Name}  & Phone Number \\
address &  email \\
township, state  zip code& website\\
\end{tabular*}
\\

\vspace{0.1in}

\resheading{Education}
\begin{itemize}
\item  \ressubheading{University}{address}{degree}{grad date}
\end{itemize}

\resheading{Personal Projects}
\begin{itemize}
\item
    \ressubheading{Project 1}{}{extra line}{}
    \begin{itemize}
        \resitem{}
        \resitem{}
    \end{itemize}
\item   
    \ressubheading{Project 2}{}{extra line}{}
    \begin{itemize}
        \resitem{}
        \resitem{}
    \end{itemize}
\item
    \ressubheading{Project 3}{}{extra line}{}
    \begin{itemize}
        \resitem{}
        \resitem{}
    \end{itemize}
\item   
    \ressubheading{Project 4}{}{extra line}{}
    \begin{itemize}
        \resitem{}
        \resitem{}
    \end{itemize}

\end{itemize}

\resheading{Skills}

\begin{description}
\item[Languages:]


\item[Miscellaneous:]

\end{description}

\resheading{Open Source Projects}



\end{document}

Update Some cleaner version

Switched over to geometry package
Using X column types
Added some length parameters for fine control of spacings above and after the sub headings
Using a tcolorbox environment for the gray headings

The bunch of warnings about overfull boxes has vanished now

\documentclass[letterpaper,11pt]{article}

%-----------------------------------------------------------
\usepackage{xcolor}

\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage[lmargin=0.5in,rmargin=0.5in,tmargin=0.5in,showframe]{geometry}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

% Defining a right aligned stretchable R - columntype
\newcolumntype{R}{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}X}

% Defining colour(s)
\definecolor{mygrey}{gray}{0.80}

% Geometry and length settings
\parindent=0em

\newlength{\ressubheadingbeforeskip}
\setlength{\ressubheadingbeforeskip}{0pt}
\newlength{\ressubheadingafterskip}
\setlength{\ressubheadingafterskip}{-6pt}

\newlength{\projectheadingbeforeskip}
\setlength{\projectheadingbeforeskip}{0pt}
\newlength{\projectheadingafterskip}
\setlength{\projectheadingafterskip}{-6pt}

%-----------------------------------------------------------
%Custom commands
\newcommand{\resitem}[1]{\item #1 \vspace{-2pt}}


\newcommand{\resheading}[2][]{%
  \begin{tcolorbox}[enhanced jigsaw,
    boxrule=0pt,
    left=\tabcolsep,
    boxsep=0pt,
    sharp corners,
    colback=mygrey,
    fontupper=\bfseries\large,
    nobeforeafter,
    after={\vspace{-0.5\baselineskip}},
    #1%
    ]
    #2\vphantom{p\^{E}}%
  \end{tcolorbox}%
}

\newcommand{\ressubheading}[4]{%
  \vspace{\ressubheadingbeforeskip}%  
  \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}[t]{lR}
    \textbf{#1} & #2 \tabularnewline
    \textit{#3} & \textit{#4} \tabularnewline
  \end{tabularx}%
  \vspace{\ressubheadingafterskip}
}

\newcommand{\projectsubheading}[1]{%
  \vspace{\projectheadingbeforeskip}%  
  \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}[t]{lR}
    \textbf{#1} & 
  \end{tabularx}%
  \vspace{\projectheadingafterskip}%    
}

% -----------------------------------------------------------

% Some possible changes to the settings of itemize
\setlist[itemize,1]{itemsep=5pt}% 1st level
\setlist[itemize,2]{topsep=5pt}% 2nd level

% Empty page
\pagestyle{empty}


\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{lR}
  \textbf{\large Name}  & Phone Number \\
address &  email \\
township, state  zip code& website\\
\end{tabularx}%

\medskip

\resheading{Education}
\begin{itemize}
\item  \ressubheading{University}{address}{degree}{grad date}
\end{itemize}

\resheading{Personal Projects}
\begin{itemize}
\item   \projectsubheading{Project 1}
  \begin{itemize}
    \resitem{}
    \resitem{}
  \end{itemize}
\item  \projectsubheading{Project 2}
  \begin{itemize}
    \resitem{}
    \resitem{}
  \end{itemize}
\item \projectsubheading{Project 3}
  \begin{itemize}
    \resitem{}
    \resitem{}
  \end{itemize}
\item  \projectsubheading{Project 4}
  \begin{itemize}
    \resitem{}
    \resitem{}
  \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

\resheading{Skills}

\begin{description}
\item[Languages:]
\item[Miscellaneous:]
\end{description}

\resheading[colback=white!40!yellow,boxrule=2pt]{Open Source Projects}
\end{document}

See the optional argument of \resheading how settings of the box can be changed.

Remove the showframe option to get rid off the frame -- it's there just for showing that the boundaries are correct.

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