Pandoc integration

[nimch]

Hi there

Project looks great ! Thanks for sharing.

I use latex for my resume/CV since university, long time ago... I use moderncv class but, in twenty years, it became less and less modern, no offense ;-)
I'm testing other templates (AltaCV, Awesome-CV, FortySecondsCV, etc). The advantage of this project (latexcv) is it already includes several templates. Testing is cool but I have to include my personal data in each template, generate, etc. Perhaps, I would like to maintain several templates for several purposes.

So, looking for latex CV solutions I found this: cv-boilerplate. I didn't know pandoc.

Have you ever think about integrate it (or similar I don't know) to this project ?

The idea is to have one (or several) separate file(s) containing personal information (yml, md, ?). This way, user can generate CV model he wants without editing template.

Sounds useful ?

Thx

[jankapunkt]

Hey @nimch thanks for your input, I experimented with using an external source but it all ended up to be too complicated or at least not beginner-friendly. I use pandoc, too and its very powerful so I could think of integrating it. The only requirement I have is - it must remain optional (setting up LaTeX can already be quite a hassle, especially for beginners).

I could think of the following workflow:

1. definitions file (yml, json, whatever)
2. generate .tex file with commands for each defined section in the document using pandoc
3. place the commands in the final main.tex file

The only caveat I currently see is to remain dynamic enough to fit in content of different size and complexity while remaining simple enough in the overall code structure.

[nimch]

Hey @jankapunkt ! Thank you responding so quickly.
I made a local "pandoc" branch and trying starting something.

[nimch]

Pandoc probably overkill. Will try to use a json parser lib.

[LubosKolouch]

My solution for this is to have the templates simply as .tex files and then use AI agent to fill in the data as needed (customize the content), compile it with pdflatex and email it to me.