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From: marcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: curriculum vitae tex format - a sample !
Summary: Don't use LaTeX if it's easier in plain TeX.
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.035525.17664@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 03:55:25 GMT
References: <1991Jan17.175918.24332@ctr.columbia.edu> <4628@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <1991Jan28.143743.9825@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
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In <1991Jan28.143743.9825@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> Bruce Rodger
(cnbs06@vaxa.strath.ac.uk) writes:

%    CV's are notoriously difficult to do in LateX, as they do not follow
%    any of the 'standard' formats. 
%    
%    The following LaTeX stuff produces a reasonable CV - at least, it got
%    me a job :-) It will give dozens of errors about 'overfull hboxes' and
%    all that rubbish when you latex it - ignore this, just keep hitting the
%    return key....

Hm. TeX is a program for typesetting texts (actually, for typesetting
``beautiful books''), and typesetting a CV is certainly within its range
of capabilities. LaTeX is a set of TeX-macros that help you to typeset
books, papers for journals, etc. --- but that's all it is. If you have
an application where a particular set of macros is not useful, then why
insist on using that macro-package in the first place?

In other words, if it's hard in LaTeX, it's for a simple one-time
thing like a CV, and it doesn't require anything sophisticated like
creation of indices or automatic cross-references, then why not
just use plain TeX?

					  Marcel van der Goot
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