Hi Uwe, Thanks for the kind words. This is my real attempt at designing a LaTeX document class and is mostly intended as an experiment. I'm glad to hear that it wasn't completely terrible ;)
I believe that the answer to your first question is yes. Could you by chance send me a document with some of the characters of interest? I would be happy to see if there any issues or compilation errors. In the tests that I've done (which to be fair, aren't very extensive), the limiting factor has been font support. It seems that very few fonts contain glyphs for even a sizable fraction of the Unicode set. (I should also point out that I am not an expert on either Unicode or XeTeX. Most of what I know has been discovered while researching the open source writing book.) As to the second question, again, I'm not actually sure how xetexCV stacks up against the other CV classes for character support. Most of my complaints with the other classes were the high degree of manual formatting many of them seem to require. When I need to produce something, I prefer to write rather than spend time in my LaTeX reference trying to remember the commands for a protected space. (This is why I vastly prefer working with LyX. When I'm writing something, I can focus on the writing. When I'm designing something such as xetexCV, then I can worry about the design.) As to modifying the other classes, I've had very good success compiling most of them without modifications. That includes nearly all of the classes currently supported by LyX. (The standard classes -- book, article, report -- have given me some trouble on LyX 1.6, but they seem to work without problems on the svn version of LyX -- which has become the focus of the LyX chapters.) The only other CV class I've specifically tested is europecv, however (which did not require modification.) I opted to create my own class for a number of reasons. These include the rationale explained in the blog posting, but also because I would like to include several high quality examples of my own work in one of the book chapters. I chose XeTeX because of how easy fontspec makes the manipulation of fonts and other design elements. Support for the complete Unicode character set was a merely a bonus. I hope that this is of some help. I will to be sending along a LyX layout file for xetexCV soon, I have some time tomorrow and should be able to finish it then. Cheers, Rob -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 5:16 PM To: Rob Oakes Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Document Class: xetexCV Rob Oakes schrieb: > I recently finished a first draft of a curiculum vitae class for XeTeX, > called xetexCV. Thanks for this info, your document class looks nice. I'm interested in its unique selling point compared to the other 3 CV document classes that are supported by LyX. Can your class handle non-ISO 8859 encodings like Japanese while this is not possible for the other classes? If so, would it be an option to extend an existing CV LaTeX document class to be used with XeTeX?: http://ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/curve.html http://ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/currvita.html http://ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/cv.html http://ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/esieecv.html http://ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/europecv.html http://ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/moderncv.html http://ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/vita.html regards Uwe
