LoLaTeXcv, a curriculum vitae class for LaTeX

LoLaTeXcv is curriculum vitae class for LaTeX. It comes as a single file class, and might be great for you if you like organizing your curriculum vitae using lists.

Table of contents

• Installation
  • The easy way
  • The smart way
• Usage
  • Getting started
  • Hierarchy of a LoLaTeXcv curriculum vitae
    • A section with lltxSection
    • A subsection with lltxSubSection
  • LoLaTeXcv environments
    • An employment history with lltxJob
    • An itemize with lltxItemize
    • A description with lltxDescription
  • Notes
• Contributing
• Authors
• License

Installation

The easy way

1. Download the file LoLaTeXcv.cls and put it in the same directory as your LaTeX curriculum vitae.

The smart way

If you have multiple curricula vitae using this class, it can be very painful to have a copy of LoLaTeXcv.cls in each directory. The best solution is to have a unique copy of this file, in the right place, that is in TeXInstallationDirectory/tex/latex/base/LoLaTeXcv/, as dictated by the mighty LaTeX Wikibook. Now please, follow these steps.

1. Locate your LaTeX installation directory.
   • If you are using MacTex on macOS, it is Users/USERNAME/Library/texmf/;
   • If you are on Unix-type systems, it is ~/texmf/;
   • If you are on Windows, run kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME$ in a terminal, and the directory is displayed.
2. If they do not exist, create the sub-directories tex/latex/base/ in this directory.
3. Open a terminal session in this directory and run git clone https://github.com/kryzar/LoLaTeXcv.

Usage

Getting started

Once you successfully installed the class, open your LaTeX curriculum vitae, and use the LoLaTeXcv document class. You must manage encoding and language as well. You do not need any other package. You may afterwards begin the document. This is what your file should look like.

\documentclass{LoLaTeXcv}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
% maybe a language package e.g. \usepackage[french]{babel}

\begin{document}


\end{document}

To display your name and personal information (your address, phone number, email address or anything else), use the lltxPersonalInfo.

• This command should be used right after \begin{document}.
• This command should be used once, and only once.
• The first argument of lltwPersonalInfo must be your name ; the three remaining arguments are displayed as followed.

\documentclass{LoLaTeXcv}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
% do not forget Babel

\begin{document}

\lltxPersonalInfo{
	Your Name}{
	Stuff on the left}{
	Stuff in the center}{
	Stuff on the right}

% content goes here

\end{document}

You may now use the other commands and environments! Each command or environment begins with the prefix lltx and is explained here. See Example.tex and Example.pdf for usage examples.

Hierarchy of a LoLaTeXcv curriculum vitae

There are two level of hierarchy : lltxSection and lltxSubSection, respectively equivalent to section and subsection. lltxSection should be used to organize a curriculum vitae into thematic parts (e.g. Career) and lltxSubSection should be used to devide a lltsSection into individual components (e.g. Employment history and Education).

A section with lltxSection

\lltxSection{Section title}

A subsection with lltxSubSection

\lltxSubSection{SubSection title}

LoLaTeXcv environments

Each and everyone of these environments should be preceded by a title made with lltxSubSection.

An employment history with lltxJob

\begin{lltxJob}[Job title]{
		Compagny}{
		Dates}{
		Place}
	\item Descriptive item.
	% more descriptive items
\end{lltxJob}

The lltxJob environment is best suited for education and employment history. Item descriptions are horizontally aligned and anything written after \lltxdotfill is pushed to the end of the line. Here is an example.

This environment is very adaptive and can be used without \lltxdotfill, for example to organize your content as a list of subsections. Here is an example.

An itemize with lltxItemize

\begin{lltxItemize}
	\item Descriptive item.
	% more descriptive items
\end{lltxItemize}

Use the lltxItemize environment instead of the standard itemize environment. Here is an example.

A description with lltxDescription

\begin{lltxDescription}
	\item[Item title] Descriptive item. \lltxdotfill Additional info
	% More descriptive items.
	% or 
	\item[Item title] Descriptive item. % no \lltxdotfill and Additional info
\end{lltxDescription}

Use the lltxDescription environment instead of the standard description environment. Here is an example.

Notes

• \url commands are displayed in the same font as the document, not in the ~~ugly~~ traditional monospaced font.
• I created \lltxdotfill because the space between consecutive dots in \dotfill was too short. You can adjust the space used by lltxdotfill by changing it directly in the class file LoLaTeX.cls. If you do not like dots, you can use \hfill instead of lltxdotfill (you will get a blank space), or any other "filling" command.
• If you need more sophisticated sections, such as a complex employment history, I suggest you give Trey Hunner's curriculum vitae class a try.
• If you use lltxDescription, you need to compile twice.

Contributing

I don't know what I'm doing. Please feel free to reach out if you want to contribute.

Authors

• Antoine Leudière (myself): creator.

Contributors:

• Florian Dupeyron for his numerous advices and the gigantic quantity of time he spent helping me on various projects, including this one.
• Lola Lanier for helping me correcting many typos and giving her wonderful name to this class.
• thiswillbeyourgithub for his ~~shity~~ funny ideas for Example.pdf.
• John Frusciante for his voice and music.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE.md file for details