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A Note on LaTeX
Written by David Andrew Collier   
Monday, 14 July 2008 07:53

As Kyle continues with his series of posts on LaTeX and Classics, I wanted to take a moment to give a brief note of my own.

 I have only switched to LaTeX within the last few weeks -- I am still experimenting and learning. Already, however, I have managed to completely reformat my curriculum vitae. My new CV is more elegant than I could ever manage with Word or another word processor, with logical structure, sleek hyperlinks, and a beautiful computer modern font. Plus, if someone opens the .pdf in Adobe, there is a nice built-in table of contents. All it took to create my .pdf was help from Ted Pavlic's template, and a little bit of experimentation. It is tempting to convince yourself that LaTeX is too complex for an average user, but in reality the process is very simple to grasp, and you can always count on a logical structure to guide your way -- the code that generates every .pdf file requires it.