wlcsm/resume

My personal résumé

Will's Résumé

My personal resume written in Groff. Individual customisation takes place in WillCashmanResume.ms whereas the main formatting and styling is done in the macro file resume.tmac. It is designed to be a simple framework for building clean, professional resumes.

After changing WillCashmanResume.ms, simply run make to update your changes in WillCashmanResume.pdf.

resume's Issues

Fix to groff 1.23 leaving left and right indented .item macro on new separate lines

Hi Will, this is a really elegant resume format, thanks a lot for sharing! I just wanted to leave this here to save people who don't know much about groff (like myself) some time and frustration due to the new groff update breaking some things

Basically groff 1.23 breaks the item macro so now instead of

|{Company}              {Duration}|
|{Job title}            {Location}|

You get

|{Company}              
|{Job title}  
{Duration}|         
{Location}|

To fix that, change lines 40-52 in resume.tmac from

.de item
.nf
.mk
.DS L
\fB\s(12\\$1\fR
\m[grey]\fI\s(12\\$2\m[]
.DE
.rt
.DS R
\fB\s(11\\$3
\m[grey]\fI\s(12\\$4\m[]
.DE
.sp -0.5

To

.de item
.nf
.mk
\# .DS L
\fB\s(12\\$1\fR
\m[grey]\fI\s(12\\$2\m[]
\# .DE
.rt
.DS R
\fB\s(11\\$3
\m[grey]\fI\s(12\\$4\m[]
.sp -0.7
.DE

Title alignment workarounds, and table fixes.

2 Days, And I must say, there is some nasty workaround with
\# This space ensures the left-aligned is at the same level as the following
\# right-aligned text.

one one liner inbetween, and the next entry below it blows up and seems unfixable.
all subsequent ones again, seem fine.

Some entries were better with tables, I must say, but that one valign bug I cannot seem to get around.

just try and insert one line of:

.item "Sabbatical" " " "Jan - Oct 1900"
into the work experience.

I could not yet find a way to realign.
Currently, it's 4 am, and I think about replacing all .items wit one-row tables, similar to

.de mytable
.LP
.in -.9i
.TBL border= cols=2 width='75% 25%' cpd=0 tal=c
.TR 
.TD bgc= hal=l \m[grey]\fB\s(12\\$1\fR\m[]
.TD bgc= hal=r \m[grey]\fB\s(11\\$2\fR\m[]
.ETB
.sp -.7
.in
..

(yes, I use hdtbl)
I now have changed basically every item rearrangement with a table, sometimes just one-row-tables, other times multiline cells, because table paddings are hell to workaround as a newbie, so yea, I'm pretty ashamed as to how my code looks, but the layouting is way easier to work with - but not at all reusable. Many copy pastas and spaghetti.