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Academic CV and Website generated from same source #56

Open SethPoulsen opened 4 years ago

SethPoulsen commented 4 years ago

As I'm sick of having to update the same things in multiple places all the time, I'd like to have my CV as a pdf generated from the same source as (at least part of) my personal website, as well as be able to use BibTeX to automatically generate my publications list. From what I can tell, it seems like Pollen would be a good choice for this.

Does anyone have an example of such a thing (or similar) that I could have a look at? Can I have target-specific formatting (e.g. format the way a publication entry is displayed differently for web vs. pdf)?

Thanks!

odanoburu commented 4 years ago

From what I can tell, it seems like Pollen would be a good choice for this.

I'd say so too!

Can I have target-specific formatting (e.g. format the way a publication entry is displayed differently for web vs. pdf)?

yes, see https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/fourth-tutorial.html (but you should probably read the whole thing if you are interested in Pollen and haven't done it yet)

ergl commented 4 years ago

I don't know about the bibtex part, but I've done that for my CV, it generates an html page and a pdf from the same source, using quad (I tried using a latex output, but it got too cumbersome).

If you want to take a look, here's the source: https://github.com/ergl/pollen-site/tree/master/cv, specifically, here's the source pollen file https://github.com/ergl/pollen-site/blob/master/cv/index.poly.pm

And here's how it looks like: html and pdf

otherjoel commented 4 years ago

Regarding BibTex, if you already have a working LaTeX resume, you can create a Pollen template out of that. Then have your tag functions produce strings of LaTeX code that get inserted into that template, This is the approach I took in my try-pollen project which produces a book and a web site from the same Pollen source. In particular look at template.pdf.p. (I also made a template.ltx.p that produces mostly the same LaTeX source but stops short of actually rendering it into a PDF.)

SethPoulsen commented 4 years ago

Thanks for all the tips everyone! This should definitely be enough to get me started (once I find the time).

I'll be back if I come up with more questions!