Wednesday, 3 February 2010

Writing a resume using reStructuredText

reStructuredText (rst) is a simple markup language perfect for writing documentation. Altough it may not be as powerful as Latex, it is much simpler to use.

I decided to give a try at using rst to create my resume : here is the input file.

Now, thanks to this rst to pdf converter project (written in my favourite language), I can easily generate a nice pdf version of my resume. Here is the resulting pdf.

This approach has many advantages compared to my previous way of doing (using open office). I can easily update the document, change the style, and generate my resume not only in pdf, but also in html or almost any formats I want.

[edit] : as some people pointed out, the input file for my CV needs an extra file for the style. This file can be found here.

6 comments:

Pax Fabrica said...
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ralsina said...

Cool, seeing people use rst2pdf always makes me happy :-)

Nahuel said...

Great, I've used rst2pdf for slides at work. It's good to find I don't need LaTeX for a slick CV anymore :)

Jonathan said...

Could you post the style file 'cv.pdfstyle' that you use?

Guillaume Chéreau said...

Jonathan : I added a link to the style file.

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