AltaCV, yet another LaTeX CV/Résumé class

v1.3.2 (17 May 2020), by LianTze Lim (liantze@gmail.com)

Sample file with new paracol layout added on 2 February 2020

(Thanks to Nur for the name.)

It all started with this:

Leonardo was talking about a résumé of Marissa Mayer that Business Insider put together using enhancv.com. I knew I had to do something about it. And so AltaCV was born.

Samples

This is how the re-created résumé looks like (view/open on Overleaf):

Though if you're creating your own CV/résumé, you'd probably prefer using the basic template (view/open on Overleaf):

Requirements and Compilation

• pdflatex + biber + pdflatex
• AltaCV uses fontawesome and academicons; they're included in both TeX Live 2016 and MikTeX 2.9.
• Loading academicons is optional: enable it by adding the academicons option to \documentclass.
• Use the normalphoto option to get normal (i.e. non-circular) photos.
• As of v1.2 you can add multiple photos on the left or right: \photoL{2cm}{logo1} and \photoR{2.5cm}{logo2,photo}. (\photo will work like \photoR.) Separate your image filenames with commas without spaces.
• Use the ragged2d option to activate hyphenations while keeping text left-justified; line endings will thus be less jagged and more aesthetically pleasing.
• Can now be compiled with pdflatex, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX!
• However if you're using academicons, you must use either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. If the doc then compiles but the icons don't show up in the output PDF, try compiling with LuaLaTeX instead.
• The samples here use the Lato font. Feel free to use a different typeface package instead—often a different typeface will change the entire CV's feel.

Example Files

sample.tex

(You may prefer to use sample-alt.tex instead; please read both sections before proceeding.)

This is the original sample template file. The right sidebar is actually a marginpar, so it doesn't support footnote and cannot automatically break across pages if it's too long. You would need to split your right sidebar contents into separate files e.g. p1sidebar.tex and p2sidebar.tex, and insert them as the optional argument of the \cvsection{...} that you want to align them with:

\cvsection[p1sidebar]{Experience}
...
... END OF FIRST PAGE OF YOUR CV ...
\cvsection[page2sidebar]{Publications}
...

This assumes that the next page's main column would start immediately with a \cvsection, so that the top of your right sidebar contents also appear at the top of the page. Now if the next page doesn't start with a \cvsection but you'd still like to add a sidebar, then use this command on the current page to add it. The optional argument lets you pull up the sidebar a bit so that it looks aligned with the top of the main column:

\addnextpagesidebar[-1ex]{page3sidebar}

If you want to change the left and right columns' widths, you'll need to tinker with the right (distance from paper's right edge until the main column's right edge) and marginparwidth (width of the right sidebar) options in the \geometry line. For example, to make the right sidebar wider by 2cm, you could use

%% original was right=9cm, marginparwidth=6.8cm
\geometry{left=1cm,right=11cm,marginparwidth=8.8cm,marginparsep=1.2cm,top=1cm,bottom=1cm}

as well as doing a bit of arithmetic when you're making the header to get it full-width, i.e. reducing the sidebar by 2cm and extending the main column by 2cm.

\begin{adjustwidth}{}{-10cm}  %% original was -8cm
\makecvheader
\end{adjustwidth}

sample-alt.tex [ADDED 2 FEBRUARY 2020]

Many users have overlooked the optional argument of \cvsection to insert the right sidebar contents, and often confused that the right sidebar doesn't automatically break across pages. This new layout uses the paracol package for typesetting the left and right columns that can break across pages. It also makes changing the column widths easier:

%% Set the left/right column width ratio to 6:4.
\columnratio{0.6}

% Start a 2-column paracol. Both the left and right columns will automatically
% break across pages if things get too long.
\begin{paracol}{2}
\cvsection{Experience}
...
... END OF LEFT COLUMN CONTENTS ...

% Now switch to the right column.
\switchcolumn
\cvsection{Education}
...
...END OF RIGHT COLUMN CONTENTS ...
\end{paracol}

You can also use \swithcolumn* for "synchronising" the columns, as well as other commands from the paracol package. See the paracol package documentation for further details.