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From: extel@quagga.ru.ac.za (Dr. Eberhard Lisse)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: curriculum vitae tex format - a sample !
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.114928.15409@quagga.ru.ac.za>
Date: 5 Feb 91 11:49:28 GMT
References: <1991Jan17.175918.24332@ctr.columbia.edu> <4628@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <1991Jan28.143743.9825@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> <1991Jan31.035525.17664@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Feb1.113904.9890@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
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In <1991Feb1.113904.9890@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cnbs06@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (Bruce Rodger.) writes:

>In article <1991Jan31.035525.17664@nntp-server.caltech.edu>, marcel@cs.caltech.edu (Marcel van der Goot) writes:
>> In <1991Jan28.143743.9825@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> Bruce Rodger
>> (cnbs06@vaxa.strath.ac.uk) writes:
> (my comments on using LaTeX for writing CVs)
>>                                             
>> 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?                         

>Simple reason - I use LaTeX virtually every day. I hardly ever use plain TeX.

>So I know how to do things using LaTeX, but would have to spend ages going
>through the docs tyo work out how to do them in TeX.


>It might have been more elegant in TeX, but it would have taken me a hell of a
>lot longer to write it....

>Bruce.

I also never ever write  in \TeX\ but \LaTeX.

I recently wrote a CV for a job application inhouse and compared it
with the style recently on this group and must say that for such
important matters one should not use a STY which is only so much
configurable but write one's own customized version.

Not that I want to critizise the author just the opposite, I always
try and learn from all the STYles I download, even if I can't really
use them.

-- 
Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse, Katatura State Hospital
Private Bag 13260
Windhoek
Namibia