Experience Showing Up

[JZL]

Sorry if I'm missing something obvious but I can't seem to get the "experience" section to show up. I cloned the repo and ran make again but it doesn't have it included. If I delete the if statement in the template.tex file, it works.

Thanks!

[JZL]

From what I can see from the given templates ( ie https://github.com/jgm/pandoc-templates/blob/master/default.latex line 39), the way pandoc does it is have two seperate variables i.e. an $if(experience)$ for whether or not to include the main heading and then a $for(experienceoptions)$ for the rest. I agree this is not ideal but I am curious why the if statement for the multi-variable block doesn't work

[mrzool]

Hello and sorry for the delay. I'm not following: in my template, the experience section is not inside an if statement, so I'm not sure which if statement you deleted. Also, I'm not using the pandoc template you're linking. The only template used in this repo is the one present in this repo, template.tex.

The only thing that comes to my mind that could cause such an issue is something wrong in your details.yml. Try to maintain the structure of the blocks, indentation and all. This is how you need to structure your content:

experience:
- years: 1879--1889
  employer: Freiberufler
  job: Freier Philisoph
  city: Sils-Maria

Make sure you don't have any syntax error or anything that could confuse the parser. This page is a good reference for the YAML syntax.

If you still have issues, please post the content of your details.yml here.

[JZL]

I apologize, I meant the education section which does have a if statement in template.tex

$if(education)$

and is not working with the included details.yml (I also passed it through a yaml linter to be sure)

[mrzool]

I cannot reproduce. make works fine on my computer with the provided files.

Can you confirm that the education section doesn't show up in your output after running make with a fresh clone? Didn't you change any setting whatsoever? Also, please double-check if It's not getting pushed down to a second page by preceding content.

[JZL]

I git clone'd your repo directly. The only change I made was to change the font to "Cardo" because the "Hoefler Text" font is hard to get on Linux. The pdf outputted is available here.

This is not a big deal, I can just fork yours or remember to delete the if statement whenever I use it. I thought I installed all the dependencies in a standard way but I might not have. Once I delete that it works perfectly and, as I said, I really enjoy these boilerplate repos 👍