[lug] LaTeX to Word Doc/RTF

[D. Stimits]

"Trever M. Shick" wrote:
> 
> I usually maintain three versions (2 normal, 1 other convertable)
> First - Word (always) recruiters are just users, they don't use stuff
>         like Latex...
> Second - Text
>         This is always good to have around incaseyou have to send it
>         in e-mail to a mac person or paste it on a job site.
> 
> Third - HTML I usually just produce this though from the Word version.
> 
> I would argue that if you are going to lose formatting in HTML, then your
> resume is "too" formatted... you can format just about anything in HTML
> given the time and patience and Guinness.

I would disagree with this, not because what you say is untrue, but
because html often does not print and display the same. Even a rather
blah unformatted html document changes on every possible browser and
printer. I find printing html to be very annoying, and the way the
common browsers like to break things even more annoying.

So far everyone that has asked for a Word format doc has said they will
accept a pdf formatted doc, at least of those I have run into. You might
look into pdf and ask if they will accept it. If you do run into a good
conversion tool I'd like to know as well.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> Trever M SHick
> 
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have finally broken down and decided to look for one of those job
> > things.  This time, I wrote my resume using LaTeX, using the macros
> > submitted by Ed Hill late last year.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I have so far spoken to one headhunter who insists that
> > resumes be in M$ Word.  Not only am I not in a position to tell her to
> > go jump in a lake, I don't believe that this is an isolated incident.
> >
> > I have tried ltx2rtf, but the result causes both StarOffice and Abiword
> > to crash.
> >
> > Has anyone had success doing something like this?  Also, to those of you
> > who have recently looked (or are currently looking), what has been your
> > experience with resume formats?
> >
> > I guess if worse comes to worst, I could convert my resume to HTML, but
> > I would lose a lot of formatting.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dhruva
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