org-cv/doc/content/post/latex_export.md

+++ title = "Latex Exporter" author = ["Óscar Nájera"] draft = false weight = 1004 +++

Using modern-cv

moderncv is a standard \(\LaTeX\) package that you can find in many of your latex distributions. For I maintain for personal purposes a fork of it to better work with my use case at https://github.com/Titan-C/moderncv.git Feel free to use any or even your personal fork for your desired use case.

To configure the export for moderncv you need the addition options in your org file.

# CV theme - options include: 'casual' (default), 'classic', 'oldstyle' and 'banking'
#+CVSTYLE: banking
# CV color - options include: 'blue' (default), 'orange', 'green', 'red', 'purple', 'grey' and 'black'
#+CVCOLOR: green

When exporting you can call the following function to get the latex file.

(org-export-to-file 'moderncv "moderncv.tex")
(org-latex-compile "moderncv.tex")

Using alta-cv

AltaCV is another project to generate a CV, you will need to install it yourself. I maintain a fork too at https://github.com/Titan-C/AltaCV.git because I need extra features and I encourage to use this fork on the sections branch.

The style of this CV is more involved and you need some configuration in your org file to get it to work. First define the margins, the large margin to the right is to allow for a second column.

#+LATEX_HEADER: \geometry{left=1cm,right=9cm,marginparwidth=6.8cm,marginparsep=1.2cm,top=1.25cm,bottom=1.25cm}

Content on the right column has the same structure of a org file, but you need to enclose it in the \marginpar{} command as shown next.

#+latex: \marginpar{

* Main Interests
- Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS)
- Free food
- Free beer

* Programming
- Python
- C/C++
- EmacsLisp
- Bash
- JavaScript
- PHP

* Languages

- *English*  Fluent
- *German*   Fluent
- *Spanish*  Native
- *French*   Intermediate

#+latex: }

When exporting you can call the following function to get the latex file.

(org-export-to-file 'altacv "altacv.tex")
(org-latex-compile "altacv.tex")

Using AwesomeCV

AwesomeCV is another LaTeX template for producing nice-looking CVs. In addition to the regular document attributes, the following are supported:

Field	Description
PHOTOSTYLE	Style of photo to use. Comma-separated values can include
	circle/rectangle,edge/noedge,left/right.
CVCOLOR	Color of highlights.
STACKOVERFLOW	Stack overflow, must be specified as ID username
FONTDIR	Directory where the fonts can be found, defaults
	to fonts/ (as in the standard AwesomeCV)
CVHIGHLIGHTS	Whether to colorize highlights. Defaults to true
QUOTE	Optional quote to include at the top of the CV
FIRSTNAME	First name to be shown in the CV. By default the first
	space-separated part of AUTHOR is used.
LASTNAME	Last name to be shown in the CV. By default the second
	space-separated part of AUTHOR is used.
CVFOOTER_LEFT	Text to include in the left footer. None by default
CVFOOTER_MIDDLE	Text to include in the middle footer. None by default.
CVFOOTER_RIGHT	Text to include in the right footer. None by default.

AwesomeCV supports a few additional types of environment types in CV_ENV, including cvemployer, cvskills, cvhonors and cvschool. Some of these support additional property fields:

Field	Description
FROM	Start date of the entry
TO	End date of the entry
DATE	Shortcut to specify both FROM and TO as the same date.
	Both FROM and TO override DATE.
EMPLOYER	Employer or organization, can also be specified
	as ORGANIZATION, SCHOOL, EVENT or POSITION (different
	names make more sense depending on the type of environment)
LABEL	In cvsubentry environments, adds the given text to the left
	of the date range, can be used to add additional information
	to the entry.
RIGHT_IMG	path to an image to include floating to the right of a cventry,
	a cvsubentry or cvschool entry. Meant to be used to show a logo.

All the supported values of CV_ENV are described below.

cventries

Enclose all the subheaders in a cventries environment. Subheaders can be of type cventry, cvschool, or cvemployer.

cvhonors

Enclose all the subheaders in a cvhonors environment. Subheaders must be of type cvhonor

cventry

Converts to a \cventry command. Supports attributes FROM, TO, DATE, EMPLOYER, LOCATION, RIGHT_IMG.

cvsubentry

Converts to a \cvsubentry command. Supports attributes FROM, TO, DATE, LABEL RIGHT_IMG.

cvemployer

Converts to a \cventry with only the title line. Supports attributes FROM, TO, DATE and LOCATION.

cvschool

Converts to a \cventry. The headline should contain the degree obtained, shown as the main title. Supports attributes LOCATION, SCHOOL, FROM, TO, DATE and RIGHT_IMG.

cvhonor

Converts to a \cvhonor command (must be inside a cvhonors headline). Supports attributes LOCATION, EMPLOYER (in this case EVENT or POSITION might be more semantically accurate, and can also be used), FROM, TO, DATE.

cvskills

Converts to a \cvskills environment. The headline must contain a description list, which gets converted into a sequence of \cvskill commands, with the term as the skill title and the description as its contents.