MultiLangCV

Multi language LaTeX CV template: use single command to swap between languages.

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Purpose of this pack
Pack stucture
How to use it?
- Swaping between languages
- Default sections, fields and other settings
How to define own sections/fields?
- Defining own section
- Defining own fields
How to add other language?
Supported languages

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English	Polish

Purpose of this pack

Prepare CV document, which is ready to print in few languages.
Modern, but modest layout
Automation

Pack stucture

Pack is devided into 3 parts:

Matter: includes CV contents
Packages: includes CV class macros
Settings: include CV settings like section definitions, icons, etc

(4. main.tex: main file to compile)

(5. CV.cls: CV document LaTeX class)

How to use it?

Swaping between languages

One can select language by setting class option (in main.tex):

\documentclass[english]{CV}

To change language to polish just change english into polish:

\documentclass[polish]{CV}

Default sections, fields and other settings

Provided class contains pre-defined sections (e.g. \publications) and fields (e.g. \phone{}) with coresponding icons.

Personal data section

Personal data section includes many pre-defined fields, which user can easly disable.
When you do not want to print your phone number, just set empty field by: \phone{} (by default all contact informations are present in Matter/contact.tex).
To change the order of fields in Personal Data section just go to Settings/FillContactOrder.sty.

Default sections

There are several different pre-defined sections, which can be set by \<sectionname> for example \publications.
To change section name in selected language go to: Setting/LANG/... and just edit the \def\<sectionname>Name{Section Name} macro.

CV item

In most CV documents one should show experience, education and etc. over the years.
This CV class provide \timeitem[ <Details> ]{ <What?> }{ <When?> } macro, which take care of some your history record.
Example:
\time[Middle-earth studies, bachelor studies, thesis: \textit{History of Hobbits}]{University of Shire}{2013 -- 2015}
Output:

Image

By default image height is controlled by number of non-zero fields in \personaldata section.
To override this add aditional argument to \image[ <height in number of rows> ]{ <image file> }.

Quotations

Quotation markings are different in many languages.
By default this class load csquotes packages with babel option.
This package contain some pre-defined behaviours for selected languages with expection of polish language.
However in Setting/LANG/polish.sty there is included implementation of proper quotation for polish language.
To use quotation marking use the following command: \enquote{ <Something to quote> }.

Some dimensions

To modify width of corresponding fields, timeitems go to Settings/WidthSettings.sty

How to define own sections/fields?

There are defined some macro definitions, which can produce other macro, which produce the other macro.
Sounds complicated, but this is a very elegant way to define you own fields and sections.

Defining own section

To define new section in CV use \DefineSection{ <section> }.
This command will create:

macro \<section>, which is responsible for section placement;
macro \<section>Icon, which is responsible for selecting section icon. To change Icon just type \def\<section>Icon{ <my new section icon> };
macro \<section>Name, which is responsible for section name output (see Setting/LANG/...).
If you didn’t specify \<section>Icon or \<section>Name, no icon will be assigned to section and name will be the same as section variable'. **Example**: consider new fieldmemberships`:
```
\DeclareSection{memberships}
\ENG{\def\membershipsName{Memberships and organisations}} % or insert \def\membershipsName in
\PL{\def\membershipsName{Członek organizacji}}            % coresponding `Settings/LANG/file.sty`
\def\membershipsIcon{\faBank}
```

Defining own fields

Main idea behind fields is similar to \author or \title fields in standard LaTeX classes.
User can insert some text into \author{ <name of the author> } and then user can refer to it using \@author macro.
This is the way, in what \DefineField works, additionaly creating some icon macro.
Example:
Let’s create github field.

\DefineField{github}
\def\githubName{GitHub}
\def\githubIcon{\faGithub}

Now user is able to fill this field:

\github{ <my github> }

To obtain the content of github field just refer to it with @:

\@github

There are two ways to add this field into \makecontact list.
One: treating field as general field \ifnotemptyfield{github} or one can specify it with href field using: \ifnotemptyhref{github}{https://}.
Href version has additional prefix argument for hyperlink (like tel:, http:, for more see Uniform Resoure Identifier).
To add this field to contact section, one have to specify the order of the fields in Settings/FillContactOrder.sty:

\def\fillcontact{%
    \ifnotemptyfield{author}
    \ifnotemptyhref{phone}{tel:}
    \ifnotemptyhref{email}{mailto:}
    \ifnotemptyfield{address}
    \ifnotemptyhref{www}{https://}
    \ifnotemptyhref{github}{https://}
    \ifnotemptyfield{placeofbirth}
    \ifnotemptyfield{dateofbirth}
    \ifnotemptyfield{status}
}

How to add other language?

In this example let’s consider german language.
First, copy one of the file from Setting/LANG/ directory and edit it to fullfill other language vocabulary.
Create Setting/LANG/german.sty.
Second, append CV.cls file:

declare your other language at the beggining of CV.cls file:

\DeclareOption{german}{
\PassOptionsToPackage{\CurrentOption}{babel}
}

pass the path of file containing default definitions of section names, etc.:

\def\@LANG#1{\iflanguage{#1}{\usepackage{Settings/LANG/#1}}{}}
\@LANG{polish}
\@LANG{english}
\@LANG{german}

for convinience declare toggle macro for your other language:
```
\def\GER#1{\iflanguage{german}{#1}{}}
```
That’s it!
Now you are able to toggle between different languages everywhere in the document.

Supported languages

(Feel free to append this list)

polish
english
russian
spanish
catalan