So, the cool geek thing is to keep your resume in a plain text file, right? Plain text is just the best way to keep personal documents away from closed formats. And of course, with the right setup, you can generate multiple output formats by typing make.

I have previously hacked at my resume in RestructuredText, Markdown, groff man, HTML, and even Microsoft Word, OpenOffice and Google Docs. I hope this is the last iteration!

This is a pandoc template for generating a pretty resume in multiple formats. Formats supported are PDF, HTML/CSS, Markdown and plain text.

The resume itself is a YAML file. The semi-structured format of a resume and YAML are a great match. Using YAML with Pandoc allows us to use Pandoc's templating language to get a good consistent result.

Editing YAML is easy, especially with a decent editor, like Emacs yaml-mode.

PDF is generated with XeLateX and the moderncv latex class. I'm using pandoc version 1.16 and TeXLive 2015 straigth from Fedora 24 as I write this. Experiment with changing the font and moderncv style and color options in the template. The example in this repo is not the best ;-). You should be able to change the font by adding "mainfont: My Awesome Font" in the YAML file.

I cribbed the HTML and CSS from Thomas Hardy in the UK (link below) and adapted it to pandoc templating. The Makefile HTML target generates a single document including the style sheet (pandoc --self-contained).

The plain text and Markdown templates can be used to generate something to paste into email and web forms.

git clone https://github.com/samjuvonen/pandoc_resume_template.git
cp example.yml resume.yml
$EDITOR resume.yml
make

I'm glad I stumbled on Mattia Tezzele's (@mrzool) Typesetting automation post. His use of YAML was what got me going. I just decided to use moderncv instead of straight LaTeX.

Andrew Swann's answer to this StackExchange question solved how to put multiple paragraphs into a moderncv cventry description.

HTML and CSS are adapted from Thomas Hardy's Free Responsive HTML/CSS3 CV Template.