Kurchin_CV

This is the code I use for maintaining my CV. To see what the output looks like, take a look at the CV.pdf file in this repo. It’s reasonably customizable; I’ll provide basic info here, you can also check out this blog post for more details about my choices in putting this together!

If you use this for your own CV, feel free to adapt but please fork this repo and credit me as well as the original authors (see below).

Features

• Formatting for main sections (one narrow column of customizable width for dates, one wide for details) and subheaders within these sections
• Built-in functions for several types of item listing formats
• Automatic import of .tsv files used for maintaining various parts of my website (repo here) using Python scripts (or you can generate the TeX files yourself if you don’t use the same webpage format)
• Automatic import of publication list from a .bib file, including bolding of name and numbering of citations
• (one of my favorite parts) Customizable vertical spacing “fudge factors” to avoid those annoying situations where the last little bit of a section runs onto the next page

Basic usage

1. Edit CV.tex and the contents of the “inputs” folder (these can either be done by hand or using cv.py, see below) to contain your own information.
2. Run pdflatex CV.tex and the output should be produced in CV.pdf

Using Python scripts

The Python code is designed to read from a .bib file (for Publications) and .tsv (for other sections). For an example of the format of these files, see the “markdown_generator” folder in the repo for my website.

If you use this, make sure to edit the top section of cv.py so it knows where to find these files and any/all spellings or formats of your name that come up in your citations so that it can make them bold.

Requirements

TeX packages

Nothing exotic here, should all be present in a standard distro. (The particular use of each one is indicated in comments in cv.cls)

• parskip
• xcolor
• geometry
• fancyhdr
• hyperref
• tabularx
• longtable
• sparse
• calc
• ulem

Python packages

(Only necessary if you want to use the automagical Python code that generates the contents of the “inputs” folder)

• pandas
• pybtex

Credit where credit is due

• The basic layout of the CV is heavily inspired by Jerry Wang’s CV.
• For the structure of the cv.cls file, I started from this template that I found on Overleaf, which was originally developed by Trey Hunner and posted on LaTeX Templates
• The Python code for citation formatting was adapted from something I got from Giuseppe Romano awhile ago