Dear LyX-Users, I recently finished a first draft of a curiculum vitae class for XeTeX, called xetexCV. As this might be of interest for some members of the list, I thought that I would send a brief overview. For the curious, an example can be found at: http://www.oak-tree.us/stuff/LyX/xetexCV/example-xetexCV.pdf
xetexCV is built on the example published at Dario Taraborelli's website: http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex It's been designed to compile with XeTeX and makes use of OpenType fonts by default. The document class also comes with an optional style called cvsplitbib, which allows for categorized bibliographies to be generated automatically from a BibTeX database. You can find an overview of the document class and basic use at: http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/2009/11/25/latex-cv-part1 A review of the code and thoughts on how to create custom document classes is available at: http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/2009/11/30/latex-cv-part2 Finally, the instructions for automatically generating a publications list from a BibTeX file are found at: http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/2009/12/02/latex-cv-part3 The document class is released under the LGPL license. In addition to the files on my website, you can also access the source code at: http://code.google.com/p/latex-professional/ or at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/scientific-latex If you discover any problems with the class, I would be very grateful to hear about them. Or, if you find it useful, I would enjoy hearing about that too. I will post a layout file soon. It was going to be today but because of work commitments, soon just became undefined. Nevertheless, I wanted to post a link while I was still excited. Cheers, Rob Oakes
