sinaatalay/rendercv

LaTeX CV generator from a YAML/JSON input file.

rendercv's Issues

Remove 3rd party dependencies as source

This project can minimize its footprint by removing the following 3rd party dependencies from source and instead pull them in in the install/setup stage:

Tools:
1. [ ] TinyTex
Fonts:
1. [ ] Source-sans
1. [ ] Roboto
1. [ ] EB-Garmand

Add ability to build a cover letter.

A cover letter is often a good addition to a CV.
A cover letter is more personalized, but there is a template that can be reused from letter to letter. Plus, it would be great if the CV and the cover letter are of the same formatting and style.
What do you think about the idea of adding the ability to generate a cover letter based on a template? I would be happy to describe my proposal in more detail if you think this functionality fits the project.

3rd party fonts are missing licenses

1. Source-sans OFL 1.1
2. Roboto Apache 2
3. EB-Garmand OFL 1.1

Allow {start|end}_date to be less precise than a specific day

I would like to specify start and end dates in terms of months. For example

 education:
    - institution: University of California, Santa Cruz
        url: https://ucsc.edu
        area: Linguistics
        study_type: BA
        location: Santa Cruz, Calinfornia, USA
        start_date: "1979-09"
        end_date: "1984-06"

As you might imagine, I am disinclined to dig through 40 year old records to determine the precise day of the month for those events, and anyone reading the CV isn't going to care.

Describe the solution you'd like
start_date and end_date should allow YYYY-MM and YYYY forms of RFC3339 dates.

Additional context

I suspect that "1979-09" is a valid RFC3339 date, in which case my feature request may be considered a bug report.

I haven't looked at the source code (yet) to see if I can produce a useful pull request.

Hash symbol in custom NormalEntry section

Describe the bug
Unable to create a hash character in a custom NormalEntry block. Tried both: C# and escaping it: C\#

To Reproduce

  custom_sections:
    - title: Skillz
      entry_type: NormalEntry
      entries:
        - name: "Programming Languages:"
          highlights:
            - "C\#"
            - "Special characters test: üğç"

Screenshots
Console Output:
CRITICAL | ScannerError('while scanning a double-quoted scalar', <ruamel.yaml.error.FileMark object at 0x000002089ECD4380>, "found unknown escape character '#'"

When a end or start date is just YYYY, date comparisons fails

This is pointing out that #4 is not fully resolved by release https://github.com/sinaatalay/rendercv/releases/tag/v0.7

Describe the bug

It appears that when checking that an end_date is not before a start_date when one of the dates is YYYY, we end up with an attempt to compare in int with a date

ERROR | '>' not supported between instances of 'datetime.date' and 'int'

To Reproduce

Include in the input yaml, something like

 - institution: Stanford University
      url: https://stanford.edu
      area: Linguistics
      study_type: PhD (not completed)
      location: Stanford, California, USA
      start_date: "1984-09"
      end_date: "1987"

Comments

Whatever trick is used to get something like 1984-09 to be a valid datetime.date should be used for YYYY. I haven't looked at the source to see how you manage that.

Support Mastodon as a Social Connections

In addition to LinkedIn, Orchid, Github and other social connections, it would be nice to support Mastodon

Describe the solution you'd like

As it happens, I have a proposed solution in pull request #10 which provides more detail