Better \cvskill

[rhagenson]

I much prefer the cvskill as used in AltaCV

\usepackage{xcolor}
\newcommand{\cvskill}[2]{%
\textcolor{emphasis}{\textbf{#1}}\hfill
\foreach \x in {1,...,5}{%
  \space{\ifnumgreater{\x}{#2}{\color{body!30}}{\color{accent}}\ratingmarker}}\par%
}
\colorlet{accent}{awesome}
\colorlet{heading}{black}
\colorlet{emphasis}{black}
\colorlet{body}{black!80!white}
\newcommand{\itemmarker}{{\small\textbullet}}
\newcommand{\ratingmarker}{\faCircle}

Usage:

\cvskill{English}{2}

Prints as a bold English followed by as much whitspace as possible (\hfill then 2 circles with same color as awesome (same color used throughout the CV), then 3 gray circles. Allows rating a skill on a Likert scale with 5 levels.

[rhagenson]

Due to the format of AwesomeCV as opposed to AltaCV, this would need to be modified to exist in a grid of \cvskills environment so that defining multiple skills in sequence does not result in lines with only one skill entry on them.

[rhagenson]

Alternatively, it might be useful to provide a way to label skills with proficiency level (1-5) then as these are read in they are put into a growing environment (similar to how the header was incrementally built) then a \printskills command produces the "Advanced"-"Intermediate"-"Familiar" levels that I use now (levels 5-3-1 are covered so would need to create headers for 4-2).

Another alternative (choices, got to love them): Organize classes of skills in order of proficiency so:

\cvskill{Computational}{Languages}{Python}{6}
\cvskill{Computational}{Languages}{R}{8}

gets formatted to a sort of:

• Programming
  • Langauges
    • R > Python > ...

so skills are ordered in proficiency level within their category.

[rhagenson]

See: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6988/how-to-sort-an-alphanumeric-list for how to possible handle the sorting. It uses the datatool package which implements some SQL-esque features and allows building a DB to then process later in the doc.

[rhagenson]

Alternative design:

\definecolor{white}{RGB}{255,255,255}
\definecolor{gray}{HTML}{4D4D4D}
\definecolor{maingray}{HTML}{B9B9B9}

\newcommand\skills[1]{ 
    \begin{tikzpicture}
        \foreach [count=\i] \x/\y in {#1}{
            \draw[fill=maingray,maingray] (0,\i) rectangle (6,\i+0.4);
            \draw[fill=white,gray](0,\i) rectangle (\y,\i+0.4);
            \node[above right] at (0,\i+0.4) {\x};
        }
    \end{tikzpicture}
}

used as:

\skills{{b/2}}
\skills{{a/1}}

to approximate the skills of Twenty Seconds CV

I would want the fill part of the bar graph to use the awesome color, which is set by the user via \colorlet{awesome}{<chosen color>}