vitae 0.1.0

Tools for academics for building a Curriculum Vitae and other oft-requested documents.

A python module for building curriculum vitae and other documents from a bibtex file.

I hate formatting citations. It’s tedious, and error-prone. Further, when I build my CV, I tend to muck it up and leave something out, mis-sort it, duplicate it accidentally, etc. So, I need a tool to do a better job.

The first function here, makemycv, will take a few arguments and put sorted \bibentry commands into .tex files with names corresponding to BibTeX entry types. In doing so, you can then simply use an \input command to embed all of these citations right in your document in an enumerated environment.

Right now, it only works for a bib file containing only papers of the CV-writer. I’ll fix that eventually.

Eventually I’ll put this on pypi, but you can pip install it right now from github:

pip install git+https://github.com/josephcslater/vitae

You’ll need the following in the header of your LaTeX cv file.

\usepackage{bibentry}
\newcommand{\enquote}[1]{``#1''}
\makeatletter\let\saved@bibitem\@bibitem\makeatother
\usepackage[colorlinks=true]{hyperref}
\makeatletter\let\@bibitem\saved@bibitem\makeatother

Then put:

\input{articles.tex}

where you want articles listed, etc.

Then, with your maintained .bib file, in the same location as your cv (for now), open a python terminal,

>>> import vitae
>>> vitae.makemycv()

will make your article.tex file along with the other defaults (see the help on makemycv).

If you try vitae, please understand:

1. No warrantee. This is still a work in progress.

2. Please provide your feedback.

3. Please help! I can use help with additional portions.

If you don’t use LaTeX, this isn’t easy enough for you yet. It’s a long ways away. However, texblog <https://texblog.org>`_ has a decent start in writing a Resumé in LaTeX <https://texblog.org/2012/04/25/writing-a-cv-in-latex/>`_. It doesn’t include the paper inclusion trick being used by vitae.

Future plans

1. Let LaTeX format, then use (internally) pandoc to convert citations, and only citations, to any format you want- html, .docx, Markdown, etc.. I just need time to write some parsing scripts. This would have to check for pandoc and balk- leaving users without pandoc to get it installed.

2. Select only article by a specified author (could be a bit dangerous as names aren’t as unique as one would think, and this could be error prone/difficult).

3. “dump formatted reverences”, with a specificity on number and type.

What else would be nice?