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Typesetting your academic CV in LATEX – Dario Taraborelli

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Several dedicated packages are available to typeset a curriculum vitæ or a resume in LATEX, such as europecv or ecv. For some reason I have always found these solutions not flexible enough to suit my needs. This is why I opted for a standard article class as a basis for my CV. Some TEX engines such as XeTeX allow you not only to benefit from the advanced typesetting features available in LATEX, but also to use in your documents expert fonts such as Hoefler Text or Adobe Garamond Pro and to edit TEX sources in your native (Western or non-Western) writing system. For my CV I use a template compiled in XeTeX with Libertine as the main typeface (get it from GitHub). My developer portfolio is set in Titillium. The following are custom templates I designed to typeset an academic curriculum vitæ in XeTeX. You are free to download them and modify them to typeset your own cv (get them all from GitHub). (All required software is bundled with the MacTeX distribution) (Requires the free fonts Font

Typesetting your academic CV in L A T E X Several dedicated packages are available to typeset a curriculum vitæ or a resume in L A T E X , such as europecv or ecv . For some reason I have always found these solutions not flexible enough to suit my needs. This is why I opted for a standard article class as a basis for my CV. Some T E X engines such as XeTeX allow you not only to benefit from the advanced typesetting features available in L A T E X , but also to use in your documents expert fonts such as Hoefler Text or Adobe Garamond Pro and to edit T E X sources in your native (Western or non-

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