vita.tex

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% Sample  Vita
% This is done in a list environment.
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% Personal heading
\begin{center}
{\large\thesisauthor}
\end{center}
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% Need to 'fold' long labels
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\newcommand{\vitalabel}[1]%
  {\raisebox{0pt}[1ex][0pt]
    {\makebox[\labelwidth][l]%
      {\parbox[t]{\labelwidth}{\hspace{0pt}\textbf{#1}}}}}
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% Here's the list definition
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\begin{list}
  {}%                                        nodefault label
  { \renewcommand{\makelabel}{\vitalabel}%   setting labels
    \setlength{\labelwidth}{100pt}%          label width
    \setlength{\leftmargin}{120pt}%
    \setlength{\itemindent}{0pt}%            don't indent first line of items
    \setlength{\parsep}{\baselineskip}%               space between paragraphs
    \setlength{\itemsep}{5pt}%               additional space between items
    }

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% list degrees newest to oldest, consider putting school in 
% too
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\item[Degrees] 
	D.Sc.\ (or Ph.D.) Some Department \\University of Foo\\May 2007 \\
	M.S.\ Computer Science, December 1990 \\
B.S.\ Magna Cum Laude, computer Science, May 1988
\item[Professional\linebreak Societies]
  Association for Computing Machines \\
  The Touring Society \\
  The Free Software Foundation
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% Don't waste time trying to get bibtex to work for these, just copy
% and paste them in...
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\item[Publications]
  Student, I.\ D.\ (2005).\ \LaTeX{} document class for Sever Institute,
  \textit{The \LaTeX{} J.} \textbf{10}(4):~323--336.
  
  Student, I.\ D.\ (2005).\ More \LaTeX{} wisdom, \textit{Another \LaTeX{} J}.
  \textbf{42}(7):~100--101.
\end{list}
\flushright
\thesismonth\ \thesisyear