This is a follow up to a previous post where I got a lot of really good feedback on this resume template. I've made some changes to the template that takes much of the feedback into account and I also added some new features that should make the template more useable for a wide variety of people.

If you have any further feedback please feel free to share!

To use this template on the typst web app, see here: https://typst.app/universe/package/modern-cv

Some screenshots of what the template looks like/can produce.

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[–] barbara@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thanks for posting in a FOSS community, that's not common for typst. Highly appreciate it.

I like the CV yet I think it's too difficult for non tech people but that's probably not the target audience.

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How does types compare to latex?

[–] barbara@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Much more modern. Way easier yet not as powerful (probably due to its age/ maturity. not language capabilities)

Markdown tables are still much easier to use
Typsts chat room is closed source and not accessible by everyone
There is no discourse forum
The typst documentation is actually the documentation of their online editor
many things are weird if coming from other languages but you just have to adapt

[–] devpaul@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just curious, but what do you mean by the following

Typsts chat room is closed source and not accessible by everyone

And

There is no discourse forum

Do you mean that's it's hard to get involved in the discussion regarding typst? If so, check out the discussions on the their github page: https://github.com/typst/typst/discussions

And also be sure to check out their discord; it's linked to from the main website.

[–] barbara@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Typst uses discord instead of matrix. Discord is proprietary and you can use discord only under discords terms which leaves out a couple of people. You can't just browse the chat rooms. It's not easy to use and simply behind modern open standards.

I mean that there is no proper forum for typst. E.g. https://discourse.julialang.org/ discourse.nixos.org/ https://discuss.grapheneos.org/ https://community.openstreetmap.org/ discussion.fedoraproject.org/ modern or updated projects all use discourse. There is no proper room where users can ask simple questions. Something like stack overflow but not stack overflow. A forum specifically for interested people. Github discussions should not be used for a user forum. Github discussions should be for discussions around the language, if you want to use github for that.

[–] devpaul@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Ah ok I see where you're coming from. That all makes sense

[–] devpaul@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I really like it. I think it's on the right path as a competitor/successor to latex. I would agree with some of barbara's comments on it's age and maturity. It's being worked on by a lot of people and is open source which is cool. https://github.com/typst/

Overall it's easy to get started but there's a decent bit to learn like with any language. Creating templates like this is much, much easier though than it is in latex IMO. Overall I'm a fan and I'm slowly phasing out everything I've written in latex and am replacing it with typst.