Feature request for academic style resume

[liutiming]

Thanks for this awesome package!

I am wondering if there is a template available for a more traditionally styled cv like this.

I think incorporating the template into pagedown can potentially improve its formatting. For example, the linked template use \hfill to format the date but I feel a more organised way maybe to have date as a field and automatically align them to the right of the page during knitting.

[yihui]

This doesn't seem like a super challenging CSS exercise. Anyone please feel free to submit a PR :)

[cderv]

@yihui I don't know if this is an option for pagedown but it may be something interesting for tidydevday - we may indicate this by the label if you want. Anyway, I put the label help wanted to show someone could chime in.

[yihui]

Yes, that is a great idea. We could also make a virtual R Markdown dev day. There are so many issues that we need help with :)

[rbcavanaugh]

This is an old thread, but....I have been using html_resume with @nstrayer 's datadrivenCV package and needed to generate a plain/boring/academic version to use in cases where I didn't think the fancy {pagedown} resume would be well received.

I'm a relative CSS novice, but I some hackish modifications of the pagedown/datadrivenCV CSS files have gotten me close (enough) to some of the other Rmarkdown CVs out there (e.g., http://svmiller.com/blog/2016/03/svm-r-markdown-cv/).

However, I can't for the life of me figure out how pagedown knows to take a hyphen "-" and split the dates. My workaround for this is just to use an emdash, but that's obviously not ideal.

Any suggestions on how to modify this?

Here's a reprex/gist of the CSS/pagedown resume template file (note that hyphens have been swapped for emdash for date ranges): https://gist.github.com/rbcavanaugh/f3a793ebcd45bde04e862569f5ce681b

Here's a screenshot of the output

Thanks for your work on the package...I really enjoy not having to fuss with formatting a word document for my CV.

[cderv]

However, I can't for the life of me figure out how pagedown knows to take a hyphen "-" and split the dates.

About this, this is done in JS in the resume.html template (line 107) https://github.com/rstudio/pagedown/blob/7ed2764e1ed679025ee5af06a39a95cf53466955/inst/resources/html/resume.html#L95-L112

You're current trick seems ok to me if you don't want this behavior.