Mathieu Richaud wrote:
Hello all,
I will graduate in a few months and it is time that I update my
resume. I want to use Lyx of course! I am almost done but I still have
two problems. I joined my resume so that you can see clearly what I am
asking (hopefully the file will get through).
1/ Under my name, I would like to draw a line across the page. I
couldn't find an option to insert such a line. I went around this
problem by inserting many hyphens. It does the trick but something
tells me that Lyx has another better way to draw a line ;-)
Look at the paragraph layout. :-)
2/ I inserted minipages to end up with the desired format (i.e. I
wanted my Education background to be next to the Education mark).
However, Lyx doesn't cut the minipages so that my resume is 3-page
long while it could only be 2 pages. If you view the DVI, you will see
that there is a huge space left between my Appointments box and my
Professional Experience box. It would look better if, let's say, the
first line of the Professional Experience was on the first page rather
than the second. How can I go around that problem? Shall I not use
minipages?
You shall not use minipages where you want a page break. A minipages is
moved around as a unit - that is its purpose. There's also two-column
text, but
it does not work well when you want to line up stuff in the two columns.
What you need is probably longtable. It is a table, so it allows easy
lining up of
items in different columns. And being a "longtable" it also breaks
when it gets to the end of the page. It can repeat the table header on the
next page automatically - if you want that.
The only downside of the longtable for this use, is that you probably want
to remove all those tabular lines which is a bit boring in lyx.
Insert a table, then open the table settings and check "longtable".
Short tables
does not break across a page boundary.
Helge Hafting
