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zrail
I think keeping your resume in a textual format like Markdown is a really smart idea. I've been doing it for about two years now.
robru
Easily the sexiest resume I've ever seen!
tomrod
Very cool! This is my first exposure to markdown. I could see convergence of this and latex, surely.
dfc
Pandoc is the convergence...
tomrod
Go on! From my admittedly brief reading after seeing this item, it appears Pandoc still suffers from a lot of compatibility issues?
dfc
Not in my experience. I think the compatibility problems you have read about may be for formats that have been recently added. markdown to supported formats works flawlessly in my opinion. Most of the problems arise when trying to import other formats to markdown.

Pandoc's extensions to markdown are a sufficient reason to be a pandoc fanboy in my opinion. JGM (fiddlosopher here on HN) is a great person to be in charge of a project. He is very responsive to questions/problems and seems to be interested in supporting pandoc behind his personal use cases.

webdevguy
I converted my resume to markdown a few weeks ago from Word; it was like a breath of fresh air. Something about changing the format allowed to realize how much fat I could cut out of my resume as well.
spencerhakim
I converted my resume to markdown earlier this year, but I've just been using OS X's Print To PDF feature for conversion from HTML to PDF. How does the quality from Pandoc compare?
zrail
Pandoc's PDF quality is astounding if you're willing to accept that it goes through a LaTeX intermediary. I recently fought with this while building Docverter[1], my online document conversion service. I ended up using an HTML intermediary so users could style with CSS. If you want to see what Docverter's quality looks like, you can check out the PDF of my resume here: http://bugsplat.info/resume.pdf

(disclaimer: I launched Docverter on HN a few weeks ago)

[1]: http://www.docverter.com

dfc
Pandoc does not do the typesetting, Latex does. So if you like latex, you will like the pdf output. Respectfully, to others who have commented on html->pdf, html does not compare to latex typesetting.

I'm hoping to be able to contribute some latex tweaks later this week to the pandoc template.

brianobush
Seems that services like LinkedIn have made self-formatting your resume a thing of the past?
gngrwzrd
I would agree but most recruiting services and even employers still require resumes in pdf, or worse yet, .doc format. Yuck!
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gngrwzrd
Pretty cool. If you're on Mac OS X you can use the POD format for perl documentation and use the already built-in command "pod2html." Then use print to pdf. Done - with no extra dependencies or installs.