schochastics/modern2-cv

Fonts

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feinmann commented

Hi there, I had some trouble with my TexLive setup and tried a bit around. In the end I used tinytex and I get also pretty beautiful PDFs, thanks for that.

But I cannot get the font-options to work. I always get the same font. I even tried to change some commands in the template.tex file, but nothing seems to have any effect.

Do you know, how to debug this? Help is very much appreciated, as are your beautiful templates!
Thanks

schochastics commented

Thanks for this. I had a similar experience and if I recall correctly, the only way for me was to set the pdf-engine option to pdflatex. Let me know if that has an effect for you!

feinmann commented

So I added pdf-engine: pdflatex to cv.qmd and it works:

pandoc
to: latex
output-file: cv.tex
template: _extensions/schochastics/modern2-cv/template.tex
standalone: true
pdf-engine: pdflatex
variables:
graphics: true
tables: true
default-image-extension: pdf

The produced pdfs are slightly larger, in terms of KBs (~150 KB vs ~80 KB), but still, the fonts are all the same, so are the filesizes. No matter what font I set through cvfont.

Any other ideas on that? Thanks a lot!

feinmann commented

Ok, I am making progress here: looking up some advice here https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/firasans/ (since I want to use that font) under usage, I changed (in template.tex)

\usepackage[default]{$cvfont$} to

\usepackage[sfdefault]{$cvfont$}

and deleted

\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault} ...

And for my peticular font, it works :)

And works also for raleway and gillius... but other fonts have problem with the option sfdefault (such as comfortaa)

Does this make sense for you?

schochastics commented

nope, but that just sounds like "normal" latex things. I think I will need to work on the font support in the future

feinmann commented

Thanks for your efforts! Will close this :)