Markdown Resume
A few weeks ago I needed to update my curriculum vitae. When was the last time that you composed your cv? The last time I had to updated it, I was using a completely different stack. I remember having used Microsoft Office Word.
Now my options are an online editor, LaTeX or Markdown. I love to write in Markdown and I like to create my own tools so I decided to craft a tool to do the job.
biteydown
biteydown is Ruby application that turns a simple Markdown document into a resume in HTML or PDF file.
Instalation
bundle install
Usage
Usage: biteydown [options] file
--html Create HTML file
--pdf Create PDF file
-h, --help Display help
$ bin/biteydown --html --pdf example/curriculum.md
Style
You can customize the look and feel of text and headings in your document using the style/style.css file. First is transformed the Markdown document to HTML file and then apply the style. It’s a little bit hacky, but works fine.
Markdown is a lightweight markup language designed as an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format and then convert it to structurally valid HTML; therefore, CSS selectors can be used to customize the curriculum.
CSS works by associating rules with HTML elements. In this case, there are a little group of selectors that can be used: h1-h6, blockquote, a, li, code, strong, em, img. You cannot use id or class selectors to create rules that apply to elements.
May 14, 2013 | @ArturoHerrero