Awesome CV awesome-cv.cls Modification Question

[njcleri]

Hello Claud,

My name is Nikko Cleri, and I am a physics graduate student at the University of Connecticut in the US. I have been using your Awesome CV template for about a year now, and I absolutely love it. I think I have gotten to a point of being good enough with LaTex to start making some fine tuned modifications, but the one that I am having real troubles with is the font color of the \cvsection{} headers, where the default is to have the first three characters colored separately. I have been scouring the awesome-cv.cls file for the last day hoping to find exactly where this is defined so I can tweak it. If you have any advice or direction I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you again for making such a great CV template publicly available.

Thank you,

Nikko Cleri

[DavideFauri]

Hello Nikko, I've recently forked this project and done such a modification, you can look it up here: https://github.com/DavideFauri/Awesome-CV/commit/1c13296edf7de1efecf0b99d2c268de3606d625f

[hank-w]

@DavideFauri Do you know how to reduce the space between sections subsections? I want to reduce the margins between Skills and the skills table. I also want to reduce the space between the Job title and job position, Thanks!

[DavideFauri]

Hi, sorry for the late answer.

Do you know how to reduce the space between sections subsections?

What I usually do is open awesome-cv.cls and Ctrl+F for the command that I want to modify... In this case I see that, around line 580 (in my -custom- version of the file) the \cvsubsection command is defined:

\newcommand{\cvsubsection}[1]{%
  \vspace{\acvSectionContentTopSkip}
  \vspace{-3mm}
  \subsectionstyle{#1}
  \phantomsection
}

You just need to increase the amount of \vspace (negative numbers means a negative vertical space, i.e. it shifts stuff upwards) and that should do the trick.

I also want to reduce the space between the Job title and job position, Thanks!

The same logic applies:

1. find the command that you want to modify -> \cventry
2. go to its definition in the .cls file -> line 605 (in my file)
3. play around with the spacing until you get the result that you want 3a. in some cases, spacing is handled by creating tabular environments. They have their own rules for vertical and horizontal spacing, but luckily stackoverflow is filled with answered questions for these issues.

Best of luck!

[Eyituoyo]

Hi @DavideFauri

May I also ask a question How do you "enter" in LaTeX

[posquit0]

Hi, Thank you for using AwesomeCV. I haven't touched that project for a long time so I can't help.

Please post your issue with details on Awesome-CV GitHub issues. Then, you can get help from people.

This is a place to post personal questions. 😄