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By: Logar

Logar — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:25:29 +0000

Hi,
how does the letter paper format work? The above advice seems flawed. Please, I need support urgently.
Best,
Logar

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:51:03 +0000

Dear all,
can somebody help in solving the Letter paper format problem? The suggestions above don't work, the resume is always in A4, but I need it in Letter format for US applications.
Thanks,
Gordon

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By: Piotek

Piotek — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:21:03 +0000

Anyone know how to put clause at the bottom of page so it will be centered in full page mode? How to break this column view?

By: Mathieu Zhang

Mathieu Zhang — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 09:09:35 +0000

If you insert a publication list using thebibliography environment, to the left header "References", there is a "*" that I don't know how to get rid of. So if you use BiBTeX, it is there too.

Anyone knows how to get rid of it?

By: David Lisle

David Lisle — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:52:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing and excellent style. It is much appreciated as well as instructive.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Sun, 08 May 2011 16:45:57 +0000

Thanks for sharing!

By: Kamil

Kamil — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:57:11 +0000

Robert, thanks for posting your findings.

By: robert21742

robert21742 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:03:57 +0000

\fontsize{12pt}{14} placed just after \begin{resume} seemed to turn the trick; I admit that this is elementary and I have been using LaTeX2e since 2002. Sorry for the multiple posts.

By: robert21742

robert21742 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:50:39 +0000

And withdraw that last comment; that did NOT work. So back to the original question. How to get bigger fonts 11pt, or 12pt in resume.tex

By: robert21742

robert21742 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:47:26 +0000

no that was NOT it; changing those lines to "resume" in resume.cls broke it good. BUT, using \documentclass[margin,line 12pt]{resume} without the "," in the option box next to "margin, line" worked. AND that is just the way TeX is. Don't add or subtract anything from the original code or it breaks. Makes sense to me.

By: robert21742

robert21742 — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:39:14 +0000

\documentclass[margin,line,12pt]{resume} also produces the similar error "LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s): [12pt]." The workaround used in the "letterpaper" unused option error won't work here. Why is the resume.cls file not working? To wit:

\PassOptionsToClass{11pt,12pt}{article}
\LoadClassWithOptions{article}

should it be "resume" instead of "article"?

By: Gabe

Gabe — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:34:49 +0000

Thanks for this!

By: Aswin S

Aswin S — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 09:41:44 +0000

Great post. I am learning latex and this helped me a lot.

By: Anthony Ricciardi

Anthony Ricciardi — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:22:56 +0000

I added this and it adjusts the paper size.

\usepackage[paper=letterpaper,
%includefoot, % Uncomment to put page number above margin
marginparwidth=1.2in, % Length of section titles
marginparsep=.05in, % Space between titles and text
margin=.5in, % 1 inch margins
includemp]{geometry}

The document compiles, for some reason it is giving me an error:
! Package keyval Error: No value specified for margin.

By: Maylin

Maylin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:51:43 +0000

I am also trying to convert it to US letter size and I tried the following as responded:

"For letterpaper, use /LoadClass[letterpaper]{article} instead of /LoadClassWithOptions{article} in resume.cls. Then, add letterpaper in \documentclass[margin,line,letterpaper]{resume} in resume.tex."

Here are the warning messages that I get. Any ideas?

(./resume.cls
Document Style `resume' .
Document Class: resume 2000/05/19 v1.4b Resume class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size12.clo)))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/comment/comment.sty Excluding comment 'comment')
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/html/url.sty)

LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s):
[letterpaper].

(./resumemaylin.aux)
Overfull \hbox (48.82149pt too wide) detected at line 16
[]

Overfull \hbox (5.06703pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 87–88
[]\OT1/cmr/m/n/12 Advised the cre-ativ-ity pro-cess in the Reg-is-tra-tion, Spo
rts and Me-dia sub-committees
[1{/usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2]
(./resumemaylin.aux) )

By: Anthony Ricciardi

Anthony Ricciardi — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:12:57 +0000

When I compile resumes with this set up I end up with page dimensions of 8.27x11.69. Can someone tell me how I can modify this so that the page dimensions are 8.5x11?

By: ukjobs

ukjobs — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:16:02 +0000

Hi Matt, thanks for posting back and letting us know what the issue was.

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By: Vickie Anderson

Vickie Anderson — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:49:52 +0000

How to write the best resume and cover letters for entry-level and established jobseekers: free samples & templates of resumes & cover letters.

By: Kamil

Kamil — Mon, 31 May 2010 14:03:20 +0000

For those wanting to use BibTeX for listing publications, but having trouble with it… it seem that there is a package clash—possibly due to a latex command getting redefined by multiple packages (?)—anyhow the following workaround should help:
…
\makeatletter
\let\saved@bibitem\@bibitem % < -- save to prevent problems due to the command getting redefined...
\makeatother

\usepackage{bibentry}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}

\begingroup
\makeatletter
\let\@bibitem\saved@bibitem % <-- restore the original command immediately before use
\nobibliography{database}
\endgroup
...

Big thank you for finding the workaround: http://www.mofeel.net/809-comp-text-tex/12368.aspx and sharing it goes to Matt Williams!

By: Kamil

Kamil — Mon, 31 May 2010 02:37:03 +0000

Hi Matt, thanks for posting back and letting us know what the issue was.

By: Matt Williams

Matt Williams — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:50:28 +0000

In reference to my post earlier, I think the issue is actually a problem between hyperref and bibentry and doesn't have anything to do with the .cls file! Thanks for making such a great template — I am using it to update my resume right now.

By: Matt Williams

Matt Williams — Sun, 30 May 2010 18:54:31 +0000

This is a great template! Like several other commenters, I'm trying to use BibTeX to produce a publication list (this time via the bibentry package). Unfortunately, for each instance of \bibentry I get the LaTeX error "Lonely \item–perhaps a missing list environment." I'm pretty sure this is related to the .cls file. Any idea on how to fix this?

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By: Kamil

Kamil — Mon, 17 May 2010 09:47:13 +0000

Hi Hossein,

I just tried it, and it is possible. In the tex file, end the resume environment at the end of page 1 content. Then issue the \name{} command again (which will draw the header content again). Then start another resume environment. In my resume I have:

\documentclass[margin,line]{resume}
\begin{document}
\name{{\Large\bf Kamil W\'ojcicki}{\footnotesize , BInfTech, BEng (Hons)}}
\begin{resume}
… % < - page 1 content goes here ...
\end{resume}
\vspace{-2mm}
\name{{\Large\bf Kamil W\'ojcicki}{\footnotesize , BInfTech, BEng (Hons)}}
\begin{resume}
... % <- page 2 content goes here ...
\end{resume}
\end{document}

You may need to adjust the vertical spacing using the \vspace{} command in the above example.

Note that the above approach is very hacky, there may be a much neater solution

Good luck!

By: Hossein

Hossein — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:43:32 +0000

Hi,

I would like to have the header in all pages of my resume the same as the header generated in the first page. Is there anyway to do that with the current .tex and .cls file?

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By: Robert Massaioli

Robert Massaioli — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:54:00 +0000

Nice post and a I do this for my resume. I would just like to say that there is a nice command called 'pdflatex' on Ubuntu and likely every major *nix by now that does the whole 'to pdf' conversion in one step.

By: Vivek

Vivek — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:01:26 +0000

Hi I could use bibtex to add publication list. But still I could not get rod of * and reference in the publication list.
Any help would be great.
Thanks in advance

By: tim

tim — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:48:13 +0000

superb write up, and great resume file links. can't thank you enough for this!

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By: Mouna

Mouna — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:41:06 +0000

Thanks Kamil, looks great.

By: Kamil

Kamil — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:37:17 +0000

Hi Mouna, to be able to add header or foother you'll have to modify resume.tex and/or resume.cls … and to do that you'll need some proficiency with LaTeX — take a look at 'Not so short introduction to LaTeX'. A quick and dirty hack for a footer would be to place \vspace{1cm} command to achieve vertical space of 1 cm at the end of last section on each page (adjust 1cm manually to suit). This is obviously quite painful — to do it properly you'll need to learn LaTeX.

By: Mouna

Mouna — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:44:57 +0000

Wonderful example. thanks
I was wondering if there is a way to add a footer or a header bellow or above the main text. Please let me know the way to do it.
Thanks

By: David

David — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:13:08 +0000

Thanks for posting this! The template produces an absolutely beautiful layout, the best I've seen anywhere.

By: Kamil

Kamil — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:28:30 +0000

Hi Ana, try setting the \pagestyle{} option like so:

\pagestyle{empty}

…

\pagestyle{plain}

…

see: http://web.image.ufl.edu/help/latex/intext.shtml

By: Ana

Ana — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:15:19 +0000

I would like to add page numbers, except on the first page. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Excellent resume layout you have there. It's definitely a great share to IT job seekers.

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By: josh

josh — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:56:29 +0000

Excellent layout. I've had to change a few things around. But I'm also looking for a way to insert page numbers. I've tried modifying the .cls pagestyle, and in the .tex as well. But so far no results. Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

By: Resume Docket

Resume Docket — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:31:41 +0000

You can use this to write your resume or use the templates offered by so many websites online to write a job-winning resume. But I have to say that I enjoyed this brief introduction to Résumés with LATEX!

By: Kamil

Kamil — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:55:52 +0000

Hi Krishnan, have a look at Tim's comments above. Cheers, Kamil

By: Krishnan

Krishnan — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:21:37 +0000

Hi, thanks for the stuff. this is indeed helpful. There is however a problem when i use bibtex to generate the publication list. I have of course, done the needful to generate the aux file. After running bibtex and latex, i get a "*" all by itself on the next line after the publications header. Then the list of publications comes without any mistake. How do i remove this lonely "*"?

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By: Kamil

Kamil — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:00:50 +0000

Thanks Tim.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:20:37 +0000

The problem lies on line 203:
\nofiles % resume's don't need .aux files
Comment out this line so it looks like:
%\nofiles % resume's don't need .aux files
or simply delete it and voila bibtex works.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:42:22 +0000

Nice resume. Any idea why the resume class doesn't work with bibtex? I have all my publications in a bibtex database and would rather it format them than do it manually. All I get is:

LaTeX2e
Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, arabic, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, german, ng
erman, danish, esperanto, spanish, catalan, galician, estonian, farsi, finnish,
french, greek, monogreek, ancientgreek, croatian, hungarian, interlingua, ibyc
us, indonesian, icelandic, italian, latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, polish, por
tuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, slovenian, uppersorbian, serbian, swedish,
turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.
(/Users/tim/texmf/tex/latex/resume/resume.cls
Document Style `resume' .
Document Class: resume 2000/05/19 v1.4b Resume class
(/opt/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/opt/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
No auxiliary output files.

)
No file resume.aux.
No file resume.bbl.
…

…
[1{/opt/local/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]

LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.
…

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Solkeun

Solkeun — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:57:45 +0000

For letterpaper, use /LoadClass[letterpaper]{article} instead of /LoadClassWithOptions{article} in resume.cls. Then, add letterpaper in \documentclass[margin,line,letterpaper]{resume} in resume.tex.

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By: Gargoyle

Gargoyle — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:54:57 +0000

Great-looking resume. However, I want to change the paper size to "letter" or 215.9 mm x 279.4 mm (yep, I'm in the US

I couldn't find any place to change it in resume.cls. How do I do that?

By: Career Networking

Career Networking — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:32:29 +0000

I agree with this. Came to know about how to draft resume.

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Bourbonnais — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:18:19 +0000

Great article (although a little bit complex for me).

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By: Lunar_Lamp

Lunar_Lamp — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:03:46 +0000

I see in your tex document you have used a horizontal fill to space out the Contact Information details. I think a nicer solution than specifying a static horizontal fill is to use the following:

Your line 22-26:
\begin{tabular}{@{} l @{\hspace{38mm}} r}
Signal Processing Laboratory & +61 4 1215 1771 \\
Griffith School of Engineering & kwojcicki@griffith.edu.au \\
Griffith University, Nathan Q4111, Australia & http://kamil.dsplabs.com.au\\
\end{tabular}

Replacing this with a more "proper" alignment can allow you more flexibility with paper-sizes etc:

\begin{tabular*}{1.0\textwidth}%
{@{\extracolsep{\fill}}lr}
Signal Processing Laboratory & +61 4 1215 1771 \\
Griffith School of Engineering & kwojcicki@griffith.edu.au \\
Griffith University, Nathan Q4111, Australia & http://kamil.dsplabs.com.au\\
\end{tabular*}