MultiLangCV

Multi language LaTeX CV template: use single command to swap between languages.

• Preview
• Purpose of this pack
• Pack stucture
• How to use it?
  • Swaping between languages
  • Default sections, fields and other settings
    • Personal data section
    • Default sections
    • CV item
    • Image
    • Quotations
    • Some dimensions
• How to define own sections/fields?
  • Defining own section
  • Defining own fields
• How to add other language?
• Supported languages

Preview

English	Polish

Purpose of this pack

• Prepare CV document, which is ready to print in few languages.
• Modern, but modest layout
• Automation

Pack stucture

Pack is devided into 3 parts:

1. Matter: includes CV contents
2. Packages: includes CV class macros
3. Settings: include CV settings like section definitions, icons, etc

(4. main.tex: main file to compile)

(5. CV.cls: CV document LaTeX class)

How to use it?

Swaping between languages

One can select language by setting class option (in main.tex):

\documentclass[english]{CV}

To change language to polish just change english into polish:

\documentclass[polish]{CV}

Default sections, fields and other settings

Provided class contains pre-defined sections (e.g. \publications) and fields (e.g. \phone{}) with coresponding icons.

Personal data section

Personal data section includes many pre-defined fields, which user can easly disable. When you do not want to print your phone number, just set empty field by: \phone{} (by default all contact informations are present in Matter/contact.tex). To change the order of fields in Personal Data section just go to Settings/FillContactOrder.sty.

Default sections

There are several different pre-defined sections, which can be set by \<sectionname> for example \publications. To change section name in selected language go to: Setting/LANG/... and just edit the \def\<sectionname>Name{Section Name} macro.

CV item

In most CV documents one should show experience, education and etc. over the years. This CV class provide \timeitem[ <Details> ]{ <What?> }{ <When?> } macro, which take care of some your history record. Example: \time[Middle-earth studies, bachelor studies, thesis: \textit{History of Hobbits}]{University of Shire}{2013 -- 2015} Output:

Image

By default image height is controlled by number of non-zero fields in \personaldata section. To override this add aditional argument to \image[ <height in number of rows> ]{ <image file> }.

Quotations

Quotation markings are different in many languages. By default this class load csquotes packages with babel option. This package contain some pre-defined behaviours for selected languages with expection of polish language. However in Setting/LANG/polish.sty there is included implementation of proper quotation for polish language. To use quotation marking use the following command: \enquote{ <Something to quote> }.

Some dimensions

To modify width of corresponding fields, timeitems go to Settings/WidthSettings.sty

How to define own sections/fields?

There are defined some macro definitions, which can produce other macro, which produce the other macro. Sounds complicated, but this is a very elegant way to define you own fields and sections.

Defining own section

To define new section in CV use \DefineSection{ <section> }. This command will create:

1. macro \<section>, which is responsible for section placement;
2. macro \<section>Icon, which is responsible for selecting section icon. To change Icon just type \def\<section>Icon{ <my new section icon> };
3. macro \<section>Name, which is responsible for section name output (see Setting/LANG/...). If you didn't specify \<section>Icon or \<section>Name, no icon will be assigned to section and name will be the same as section variable'. **Example**: consider new field memberships`:

\DeclareSection{memberships}
\ENG{\def\membershipsName{Memberships and organisations}} % or insert \def\membershipsName in
\PL{\def\membershipsName{Członek organizacji}}            % coresponding `Settings/LANG/file.sty`
\def\membershipsIcon{\faBank}

Defining own fields

Main idea behind fields is similar to \author or \title fields in standard LaTeX classes. User can insert some text into \author{ <name of the author> } and then user can refer to it using \@author macro. This is the way, in what \DefineField works, additionaly creating some icon macro. Example: Let's create github field.

\DefineField{github}
\def\githubName{GitHub}
\def\githubIcon{\faGithub}

Now user is able to fill this field:

\github{ <my github> }

To obtain the content of github field just refer to it with @:

\@github

There are two ways to add this field into \makecontact list. One: treating field as general field \ifnotemptyfield{github} or one can specify it with href field using: \ifnotemptyhref{github}{https://}. Href version has additional prefix argument for hyperlink (like tel:, http:, for more see Uniform Resoure Identifier). To add this field to contact section, one have to specify the order of the fields in Settings/FillContactOrder.sty:

\def\fillcontact{%
    \ifnotemptyfield{author}
    \ifnotemptyhref{phone}{tel:}
    \ifnotemptyhref{email}{mailto:}
    \ifnotemptyfield{address}
    \ifnotemptyhref{www}{https://}
    \ifnotemptyhref{github}{https://}
    \ifnotemptyfield{placeofbirth}
    \ifnotemptyfield{dateofbirth}
    \ifnotemptyfield{status}
}

How to add other language?

In this example let's consider german language. First, copy one of the file from Setting/LANG/ directory and edit it to fullfill other language vocabulary. Create Setting/LANG/german.sty. Second, append CV.cls file:

1. declare your other language at the beggining of CV.cls file:

\DeclareOption{german}{
\PassOptionsToPackage{\CurrentOption}{babel}
}

2. pass the path of file containing default definitions of section names, etc.:

\def\@LANG#1{\iflanguage{#1}{\usepackage{Settings/LANG/#1}}{}}
\@LANG{polish}
\@LANG{english}
\@LANG{german}

3. for convinience declare toggle macro for your other language:

\def\GER#1{\iflanguage{german}{#1}{}}

That's it! Now you are able to toggle between different languages everywhere in the document.

Supported languages

(Feel free to append this list)

• polish
• english
• russian
• spanish