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:page_facing_up: Awesome CV is LaTeX template for your outstanding job application
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Add optional \dateofbirth command for personal information header #124

Closed BafDyce closed 2 years ago

BafDyce commented 7 years ago

This allows the usage of e.g. \dateofbirth{January 1st, 1970}, which in turn adds a corresponding entry in the header.

I positioned the entry between \email and \homepage, however I am not 100% sure if this is the best place. What is your opinion on that?

The date is actually just provided as a string which is places as-is. E.g. the user has control whether he wants "January 1st, 1970", "01.01.1970" or some other format.

I also included the command into the examples (however, I commented them out)

johannesbottcher commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV/issues/90 https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV/pull/69 https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV/pull/97 https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV/pull/96

@posquit0 It might be a good idea to clarify what that template is, or rather what it does/provides. As I said before, somebody will add a PR to include the BurgerKing logo at one time.

BafDyce commented 7 years ago

Oh, sorry. I did not see that there was a PR with something similar already :/

So, the recommended way is still to use \extrainfo{} for this and live with the fact that it appears at the end of the list?

johannesbottcher commented 7 years ago

The template defines a given layout, with not much a user can do to change it. You can change the class file to your needs (look at the license), though a simple interface would be better. Patching (etoolbox) would also be possible.
The most simple interface on the other hand, would be no interface at all.

Why define an interface for a user to define the order of stuff to appear, when the user can just put what he wants on the page. Templates are nice if you are ok with the output, as soon as you want to amend it to your needs, you know, that they are limiting you.

You can have a look at creativeCv though. ;-)

mcrapet commented 7 years ago

+1