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msl
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res | Eliminate white Space

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I'm writing my resume in res class and there is an unpleasant amount of white space between the section titles and the the content of each section. In particular, I would like my CV to look something more like this:

http://brytonshang.com/cv_bryton_shang.pdf

The source file for my CV is attached below.

Thank you so much.
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Stefan Kottwitz
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res | Eliminate white Space

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Hi,

are you sure that you would like to use the res class? Have a look at what I wrote in: res | Add Class to TeX System - this class is really old.

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msl
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Re: res | Eliminate white Space

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Is there a more modern class you would recommend that would let me achieve a CV that looks similar to the one I linked to?
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Stefan Kottwitz
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That CV can easily be created using a table and font commands. But do you really want to let your CV look this way? In my opinion that CV is a terrible font style mix.

Here's an example line:
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Four font styles in a row. I don't think that's nice. For my CVs, I used the scrartcl class (article class would do as well) and tabular environments. Actually, I made a macro for each section (with tabular inside), and adjusted that macro until it was optimal.

Have a look at Joseph's blog posts: Writing a curriculum vitae in LaTeX.

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