ECV - A fancy curriculum vitae with LaTeX

This repository hosts the source code for the CTANpackage ECV.

The package enhances a LaTeX installation with a LaTeX class for writing a curriculum vitae in a tabular form. With this class you can write a curriculum vitae in English or German language.

If you just want to extend you LaTeX installation please download the ECV package from CTAN and follow the installation instructions.

If you want to extend the package please follow this guideline.

Building the package

To build the package from source clone this repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/poldi2015/ecv.git

and run make:

$ make dist

This will create the zip file dist/ecv.zip with the complete installation package as it can be downloaded from CTAN.

All build artifacts without the archive itself can be build with:

$ make compile

The repository can be cleaned up with:

$ make clean

The source files

• dependencies/ contains third party tools that are needed for compilation
• doc/ecv.tex The user documentation of the ECV class
• patch/ Files needed for patching generated artifacts
• src/ecv.cls The LaTeX class of the package
• src/ecvNLS.sty Macros for the language selection
• ecvEnglish.ldf and ecvGerman.ldf Language support files with the translations
• static All files that will be added unchanged to the CTAN package like README and template sources

Build artifacts

All build artifacts can be found in build. The Makefile builds the following artifacts:

• ecv.ins and ecv.dtx which contains the LaTeX installation package and the documentation source.
• ecv.pdf the documentation of the class
• CV-template_*.pdf PDF files of the ECV template documents

Build dependencies

The build environment needs the following Unix tools to be installed:

• GNU make
• LaTeX (inclduding latexmk)
• perl
• Unix commandline: bash, echo, cp, mv, rm, ed, cut, mkdir, head

Contributing

If you want to contribute fixes, improvements and new ideas please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md on how you can contribute.

History

For nostalgic reasons you can find the original repository still on Sourceforge as latex-ecv.

Contact

• Bernd (Poldi) Haberstumpf poldi@thatswing.de
• Christoph P. Neumann c.p.neumann@gmail.com