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Improve resume typography and layout #11

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189 changes: 107 additions & 82 deletions resume.cls
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\RequirePackage[T1]{fontenc}
\RequirePackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\RequirePackage{textcomp}
\RequirePackage{lmodern}
\RequirePackage[sfdefault]{inter} % Modern Inter font

\RequirePackage{needspace}
\RequirePackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{calc}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}

% Counter for client subsections
\newcounter{clientsubsec}
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\inclientgroupfalse

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% HEADINGS: Commands for printing name and address
% HEADINGS: Commands for printing name and address (modern two-column layout)

\def \name#1{\def\@name{#1}} % \name command can be used to set name
\def \@name {} % Set \@name to empty by default

\def \addressSep {$\diamond$} % Set default address seperator
\def \subtitle#1{\def\@subtitle{#1}} % Role/company subtitle
\let \@subtitle \relax

% One or two address lines can be specified
\let \@addressone \relax
\let \@addresstwo \relax
% Contact info for right column
\let \@addressone \relax % Physical address
\let \@addresstwo \relax % Contact details

% \address command can be used to set first and second address (optional)
\def \address #1{
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% \printaddress is used to style an address line (given as input)
\def \printaddress #1{
\begingroup
\def \\ {\addressSep\ }
\centerline{#1}
\def \\ {\quad}
#1
\endgroup
\par
\addressskip
}

% \printname is used to print the name as a page header
% \printname is used to print the name as a page header (centered layout)
\def \printname {
\begingroup
\centerline{\textbf{\MakeUppercase{\namesize\@name}}}
\endgroup
\centering
{\textbf{\MakeUppercase{\namesize\@name}}}%
\@ifundefined{@subtitle}{}{\\[2pt]{\large\@subtitle}}%
\par\vspace{4pt}
\@ifundefined{@addresstwo}{}{{\footnotesize\def\\{\quad$\cdot$\quad}\@addresstwo}}
\par
\endgroup
\vspace{0.5em}
\hrule height 0.5pt
\nameskip
}

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\ifshowfooter
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lastpage}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt} % Adds a line above the footer

% Setting the footer
\cfoot{\footnotesize Bytelope AB is dedicated to providing expert software development consulting, tailored to meet unique client needs.}
\rfoot{\thepage}
\cfoot{\footnotesize \href{https://www.bytelope.com}{Bytelope AB}}
\rfoot{\footnotesize Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}

\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % remove the header line
\fi
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% DOCUMENT: Create the head of the document

\AtBeginDocument{ % Begin document
\printname % Print the name specified with \name
\@ifundefined{@addressone}{}{ % Print the first address if specified
\printaddress{\@addressone}}
\@ifundefined{@addresstwo}{}{ % Print the second address if specified
\printaddress{\@addresstwo}}
\printname % Print name and contact in two-column layout
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% SECTIONS: Create section headings
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\end{list}
}

% Commands to start and end a client group
\newcommand{\startClientGroup}{%
\inclientgrouptrue%
\stepcounter{clientgroup}%
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% SEMANTIC POSITION ENVIRONMENTS
% Domain-specific commands for consulting business structure
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

\newcommand{\finishClientGroup}{%
% Draw the vertical line for the entire group
\tikz[remember picture, overlay] {
\draw[gray, line width=1.5pt]
([xshift=-0.5em]group-start-\the\value{clientgroup})
--
([xshift=-0.5em]group-end-\the\value{clientgroup});
}%
\inclientgroupfalse%
\par
}
% Colors for visual hierarchy
\definecolor{accentcolor}{HTML}{2c3e50} % Dark blue accent
\definecolor{employerline}{gray}{0.3}
\definecolor{assignmentborder}{gray}{0.75}
\definecolor{assignmenttag}{gray}{0.5}

% Used to format job listing
\newenvironment{rSubsection}[4]{
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Default Layout: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% Employer (bold) Dates (regular) %%
%% Title (emphasis) Location (emphasis) %%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\textbf{#1}%
\ifinclientgroup%
% Place start marker right after the employer name
\tikz[remember picture] \node[coordinate] (group-start-\the\value{clientgroup}) {};%
\fi%
\hfill{ #2}% Stop a space
\ifthenelse{\equal{#3}{}}{}{
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% rEmployer - For any employer (direct or consulting company)
% Use for: Bytelope AB, Combitech AB, Saab AB, Banky AB, etc.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\newenvironment{rEmployer}[4]{
\vspace{0.8em}
\noindent\textbf{\MakeUppercase{#1}}%
\hfill{#2}%
\ifthenelse{\equal{#3}{}}{}{%
\\
\emph{#3} \hfill \emph{#4}% Stop a space
}\smallskip
% \cdot used for bullets, indented to avoid overlap with line numbers
\begin{list}{$\cdot$}{\leftmargin=1.5em}
\itemsep -0.5em \vspace{-0.5em}
}{
\emph{#3}\hfill\emph{#4}%
}%
\smallskip
\begin{list}{-}{\leftmargin=1.5em\itemsep=-0.3em}
}{
\end{list}
\hspace{2em}
\vspace{0.3em}
}

% Used to format client job listing with vertical line
\newenvironment{rClientSubsection}[4]{
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Client Layout with vertical line %%%%%%%
%% Employer (bold) Dates (regular) %%
%% Title (emphasis) Location (emphasis) %%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\stepcounter{clientsubsec}%
\noindent\hspace{1.5em}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{\dimexpr\textwidth-1.5em\relax}
{\small\textit{Client:}} \textit{#1} \hfill { #2}% Stop a space
\ifthenelse{\equal{#3}{}}{}{
\\
\emph{#3} \hfill \emph{#4}% Stop a space
}\smallskip
% \cdot used for bullets
\begin{list}{$\cdot$}{\leftmargin=1.5em}
\itemsep 0.1em \vspace{0em}
}{
\end{list}
\end{minipage}%
% Mark the end position - place it AFTER the content
\ifinclientgroup%
\tikz[remember picture] \node[coordinate] (group-end-\the\value{clientgroup}) {};%
\fi%
\par
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% rAssignment - For client assignments under a consultancy
% Use for: Client work via Bytelope, Combitech, etc.
% Subtle left border style (like a blockquote) to show hierarchy
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\newenvironment{rAssignment}[4]{
\vspace{0.1em}
\noindent\hspace{0.8em}%
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[
inner sep=8pt,
text width=\dimexpr\linewidth-4.2em\relax,
anchor=north west
] (box) \bgroup
\begin{minipage}[t]{\dimexpr\linewidth-4.2em-16pt\relax}
% Client name and dates
\textbf{#1}\hfill{#2}%
\ifthenelse{\equal{#3}{}}{}{%
\\
\emph{#3}\hfill\emph{#4}%
}%
\smallskip
\begin{list}{-}{\leftmargin=1.2em\itemsep=0.15em\topsep=0.2em}
}{
\end{list}
\end{minipage}
\egroup;
% Left border with vertical "CLIENT" text
\draw[assignmentborder, line width=1pt] (box.north west) -- (box.south west);
\node[rotate=90, anchor=south, font=\scriptsize\color{assignmenttag}]
at ($(box.north west)!0.5!(box.south west) - (0.4em,0)$) {CLIENT};
% Dashed bottom separator for consecutive clients
\draw[assignmentborder, line width=0.5pt, dashed]
($(box.south west) + (0,-0.3em)$) -- ($(box.south east) + (0,-0.3em)$);
\end{tikzpicture}
}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY - Keep old commands working
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

% rSubsection maps to rEmployer
\newenvironment{rSubsection}[4]{%
\begin{rEmployer}{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}%
}{%
\end{rEmployer}%
}

% rClientSubsection maps to rAssignment
\newenvironment{rClientSubsection}[4]{%
\begin{rAssignment}{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}%
}{%
\end{rAssignment}%
}

% Legacy group commands (no longer needed but kept for compatibility)
\newcommand{\startClientGroup}{}
\newcommand{\finishClientGroup}{}

\def\namesize{\huge}
\def\nameskip{\medskip}
\def\addressskip{\smallskip}
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\newcommand{\techItem}{\item[$*$]}
\newcommand{\bItem}{\item[-]}

% Fine print for tech/infrastructure/methodology lines
\definecolor{techgray}{gray}{0.35}
\newcommand{\techLine}[2]{\item[-] {\small\color{techgray}\textbf{#1}: #2}}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Multiple Columns
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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