I even did the special é character in the title. How about that. I wonder if I got it backwards?
Anyways. I had this plan for a long time to write my resume in Docbook. Why Docbook? Because I could collect all my data in one big file, or multiple files, and then apply XSLT filters to prune it down into what I wanted to generate. It sounded great in my head, and it sounds awesome to implement. I mean every programmer’s dream. A professional looking résumé generated from code. I could push commits to a git repo, and hack up a hook to have it automatically update my résumé in both PDF and HTML formats all at once. Unfortunately, the learning curve for docbook to do such typesetting is rather difficult. I even found a free, open source docbook editor (only does docbook 4.5, not the new 5.0).
I spent about a day trying to figure it out. I read Docbook: The Definitive Guide and the XSL Guide. I know I could do it, but I don’t believe it would be a simple task. I’m not even sure the end result would be worth it. Doing documentation in docbook, that would be worth it. I think that would be a better place to start, writing a short book, or article, in docbook. Something that doesn’t require lots of special formatting, like a résumé does. Something a bit simpler to get my feet wet.
As an alternative, I have turned to LyX, a LaTeX editor thingy that seems to be more suited to doing it. Certainly their editor is a bit better. As I type this paragraph, however, I wonder if I ever searched the internet for a docbook stylesheet for résumés that someone already created.
Wouldn’t you know it, it exists. So yeah, I’m going to go do that now.
