MarkdownishCV

• Easily tailor your CV by adding/removing sections by wrapping them with HTML tags with uniquely named classes (using Beautiful Soup)
• Create PDF versions of your CV (using pandoc and weasyprint)
• Insert page breaks into PDF output using <div class="page-break"></div>
• CV also looks nice when used as a webpage
• Sample files:
  • cv.pdf: PDF version of the sample
  • code.py: cleans up code and creates PDF output
  • style.css: provides styling for PDF outputs when using weasyprint, defines the page break tag
  • main.md: sample input file
  • clean.md: cleaned sample

cv.pdf

code.py

```python import re import subprocess from pathlib import Path from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, Comment

Wrap double space in

, otherwise they will be removed

soup = BeautifulSoup(Path('./main.md').read_text().replace(' ', "

"))

Remove HTML comments enclosed in <!-- -->

for comment in soup.find_all(string=lambda text:isinstance(text, Comment)): comment.extract()

Remove certain sections if you want to, according to their class

for attr in [ # 'paragraph', # 'education', # 'papers', 'skills', ]: for item in soup.find_all(attrs={'class': attr}): item.extract()

Remove unnecessary HTML code

output = str(soup) for attr in ['', '', '', '', '', '', '

', '

']: output = output.replace(attr, '')

Create a clean output .md file

cleanfile = Path('./clean.md') cleanfile.write_text(output, encoding=None, errors=None)

Convert the .md to .pdf

print(subprocess.Popen(f'pandoc {clean_file} --css style.css --pdf-engine=weasyprint --metadata title="" --from markdown+startnum -o cv.pdf', cwd=Path('.').absolute(), shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT).stdout.read()) ```

style.css

```css @media print { @page { size: A4 portrait;

    @bottom-center {
        content: counter(page) " of " counter(pages);
    }
}

}

html { font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Palatino'; }

body { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

a { text-decoration: none; color: rgb(44, 44, 128); }

h1 { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; }

h2 { font-size: 10pt; margin-top: -2pt; border-bottom: 0.75pt solid; border-bottom-color: black; }

h4 { margin-top: 4pt; margin-bottom: -5pt; }

ul, ol { padding-left: 1rem; }

.page-break { page-break-after: always; } ```

main.md

```markdown

Your Name

✉ your@email.com | 𝕏 your_x_twitter | 👤 yourdomain.com

## Paragraph Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Education

• 2024 - 2024 Degree 1. Institute. Host: Your Host
  Some description.
  More text. <!-- Comment for yourself -->
• 2023 - 2024 Degree 2. Institute. Host: Your Host
  🏆 Award
• 2023 - 2023 Degree 3. Institute. Host: Your Host
  
  • Sub-list.
  • Another item.

Papers

1. CONF'24 Paper 1
   Authors: Your Name, Friend's Name
   In: Proceedings
   🏆 Award 1
   🏆 Award 2
2. CONF'24 Paper 2
   Authors: Your Name, Friend's Name
   In: Proceedings

Skills

• Skill 1
  • Sub-skill 1
  • Sub-skill 2
• Skill 2
• Skill 3

```

clean.md

```markdown

Your Name

✉ your@email.com | 𝕏 yourxtwitter | 👤 yourdomain.com

Paragraph

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Education

• 2024 - 2024 Degree 1. Institute. Host: Your Host
  Some description.
  More text.
• 2023 - 2024 Degree 2. Institute. Host: Your Host
  🏆 Award
• 2023 - 2023 Degree 3. Institute. Host: Your Host
  
  • Sub-list.
  • Another item.

Papers

1. CONF'24 Paper 1
   Authors: Your Name, Friend's Name
   In: Proceedings
   🏆 Award 1
   🏆 Award 2
2. CONF'24 Paper 2
   Authors: Your Name, Friend's Name
   In: Proceedings

Skills

• Skill 1
  • Sub-skill 1
  • Sub-skill 2
• Skill 2
• Skill 3

```