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Oh goodness, I hope that's not how it came across - I hoped the idea that it had to be compiled into PDF before sending was clear!

Don't get me wrong, I would also not open a TEX file in the ~10 seconds I give each CV




> Oh goodness, I hope that's not how it came across - I hoped the idea that it had to be compiled into PDF before sending was clear!

It was clear. You even linked your PDF resume as an example. The GP's interpretation is just bizzare.


Oh, okay. I just see LaTeX as a math academics thing, about as useful and difficult as writing HTML by hand. Now, if someone had leveraged LaTeX in a real system or automation, I'd find that interesting.


> as useful and difficult as writing HTML by hand

How else do you write html? I haven’t used dreamweaver in 20 years by now.


Was clear to me too.




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