---
title: "Resumes and cover letters"
output:
  html:
    meta:
      css: default
vignette: >
  %\VignetteEngine{litedown::vignette}
  %\VignetteIndexEntry{Resumes and cover letters}
  %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
---

# Start from Markdown

The resume and cover letter starters keep content in ordinary Markdown.
Copy one into a project, edit its YAML and prose, and render it:

```{r}
#| eval = FALSE
liteformats::use_resume("resume.Rmd")
liteformats::resume("resume.Rmd", "resume.html")
liteformats::resume("resume.Rmd", "resume.pdf")
```

For a cover letter, use the cover letter starter and its matching renderer:

```{r}
#| eval = FALSE
liteformats::use_cover_letter("cover-letter.Rmd")
liteformats::cover_letter("cover-letter.Rmd", "cover-letter.html")
liteformats::cover_letter("cover-letter.Rmd", "cover-letter.pdf")
```

The PDF path uses `xfun::browser_print()` and therefore needs a local
Chromium-based browser. The HTML renderer does not.

# Automate builds with Make

Calling the renderer is more explicit than clicking a Knit button, which makes
it straightforward to add project-specific options and other build steps.
A small `Makefile` turns those commands into a repeatable, one-command workflow:

``` make
.PHONY: all clean

all: resume.html resume.pdf cover-letter.html cover-letter.pdf

resume.html resume.pdf: resume.Rmd
	Rscript -e 'liteformats::resume("$<", "$@")'

cover-letter.html cover-letter.pdf: cover-letter.Rmd
	Rscript -e 'liteformats::cover_letter("$<", "$@")'

clean:
	$(RM) resume.html resume.pdf cover-letter.html cover-letter.pdf
```

Run `make` to build everything, or name one target such as
`make cover-letter.pdf`. Make rebuilds a target only when its `.Rmd` source
has changed. The recipes can also include preprocessing, postprocessing,
or any other commands needed for a specific design.

# Typography and fitting

The main controls can be set under the `liteformats` YAML key:

``` yaml
liteformats:
  margins: ["0.65in", "0.8in"]
  font-family: "Charter, Georgia, serif"
  font-size: 11pt
  font-scale: 0.94
  ligatures: false
  line-height: 1.15
  paragraph-spacing: 0.05em
  section-spacing: 1em
  link-color: "#385898"
```

Renderer arguments override YAML. A local font family can provide regular,
italic, bold, and bold-italic files. These files are embedded into the output,
which keeps HTML portable and lets PDF rendering work offline.

```{r}
#| eval = FALSE
liteformats::resume(
  "resume.Rmd",
  font_files = c(
    regular = "fonts/MySerif-Regular.otf",
    italic = "fonts/MySerif-Italic.otf",
    bold = "fonts/MySerif-Bold.otf"
  ),
  font_scale = 0.9,
  ligatures = FALSE
)
```

Alternatively, `google_font = "Source Serif 4"` adds a Google Fonts stylesheet.
This option is deliberately opt-in because it requires internet access when the
document is rendered. A full Google Fonts CSS URL can select explicit weights
or variable-font axes; also set `font_family` to the matching family name.

Disabling ligatures prevents a common text-extraction problem, but an embedded
font's own tables can also affect PDF extraction. For ATS-sensitive documents,
check the final result with a tool such as `pdftotext resume.pdf -`.

# Semantic resume entries

The starter uses fenced divisions and inline spans to align dates and locations
without LaTeX:

``` markdown
::: resume-entry
**Example Corporation** [Seattle, WA · 2022--Present](){.resume-meta}

**Principal Data Scientist** [Evidence Systems](){.resume-meta}

- Led a cross-functional analytical program.
- Built reusable, documented research software.
:::
```

The cover letter starter needs no layout markup. Its author, address, contact
details, date, and greeting come from YAML, while the letter itself remains
plain Markdown. The template keeps the letterhead and body in two columns,
including in narrow browser or IDE preview panes. Use a YAML list for a
multiline address, for example
`address: ["123 Example Street", "Example City, EX 00000"]`; litedown's intentionally
small YAML parser does not implement block scalars.