McDowell CV is a LuaLaTeX class for building neat and space-efficient CVs using the design originally proposed by Gayle L. McDowell at http://www.careercup.com/resume.
The class is based on article
class. The paper format is set to U.S. letterpaper by default. A template showing an example usage of the class is included.
- A great tool making it easy to build CVs: https://latexresu.me/.
calibri
- sets calibri as the main font. Otherwise the default font is Times New Roman since version 1.1.0.
The class features the following commands:
\name{name}
- defines the applicant's name to be printed by\printheader
.\address{address}
- defines the applicant's address to be printed by\printheader
.\contacts{contacts}
- defines the applicant's contacts to be printed by\printheader
.\makecvheader
- prints the CV header consisting of the name (see the\name
command), address (see the\address
command) and contacts (see the\contacts
command).
\begin{cvsection}{sectionname}
- prints a section with a header consisting of the name in bold small caps and a page-wide horizontal line below.\begin{cvsubsection}[linesnum]{left}{center}{right}{content}
- prints a subsection with header consisting of theleft
,center
andright
titles. The optionallinesnum
argument defines the amount of lines in the header. The argument only affects the vertical spacing between the environment header and content thus eliminating the effect of tabu package vertical spacing bug.
- Make sure
lualatex
(see https://www.luatex.org/download.html) is installed on your machine and is available in the terminal or a command line client of your choice. - In the terminal or a command line client of your choice, go to the folder containing
McDowell_CV_Template.tex
andmcdowellcv.cls
, and run the following command:lualatex McDowell_CV_Template.tex
.