Alignment Issue

Question

I am creating my resume in LaTeX and loving it, using new commands and learning many new things. However I am stuck at the top. I am trying to create an output like this ..

I have learnt a bit about indentation and have to learn more about using the geometry package but during my coding (below) I am not able to align like the above image. I have used \noindent and \flushright but each time I use the command the indentation starts with new line making the output different.

%% (c) Shashwat Pant
%% Resume - C.V of Shashwat Pant
%% September 17th 2012

\documentclass[letterpaper,11pt]{article}
%\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[empty]{fullpage}

\newcommand{\head}[1]{\noindent \\ \\ \large \bf #1}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
\bf{\huge Shashwat Pant}\\
\end{center}

\hrule

\head{Contact Information}

\begin{center} {

S/O Late Dr. S.N Pant \\
Flat No - 391, Block D-3 \\
Penta Homes, VIP Road \\
Zirakpur - 140603 \\
Punjab , IN

} \end{center}

\begin{flushright}
  Voice -

 \end{flushright}

\end{document}

Apart from the indentation issue, what font package is good for making resume ?

Answer 1

You can use minipages:

%% (c) Shashwat Pant
%% Resume - C.V of Shashwat Pant
%% September 17th 2012

\documentclass[letterpaper,11pt]{article}
%\usepackage[charter]{mathdesign}
% \usepackage{charter}
% \usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage{kpfonts}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[empty]{fullpage}

\newcommand{\head}[1]{\noindent \\ \large \bf #1}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}
\bf{\huge Shashwat Pant}\\
\end{center}

\hrule
\begin{minipage}[c]{.15\textwidth}
\head{Contact Information}
\end{minipage}%
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{.3\textwidth}
S/O Late Dr. S.N Pant \\
Flat No - 391, Block D-3 \\
Penta Homes, VIP Road \\
Zirakpur - 140603 \\
Punjab , IN
\end{minipage}%
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[c]{.3\textwidth}
  Voice -
\end{minipage}%

\end{document}

For fonts I have added few choices. Which one is better is a very subjective matter. I prefer charter or palatino or kpfonts.

Answer 2

Some general comments on the code

\newcommand{\head}[1]{\noindent \\ \\ \large \bf #1}

Try to avoid using \\ at all, and certainly for adding vertical space, this doesn't add vertical space but rather it adds blank lines (which don't stretch and which do the wrong things at page breaks) To add vertical space use \vspace{2\baselineskip} This command does not use any braces so would make any following text be large and bold. Also \bf is a deprecated command only defined in some classes (not in latex itself) for compatibility with the old latex2.09 system.

Better would be

\newcommand{\head}[1]{{\par\large \bfseries \noindent#1\par}}

You should always make sure if using size change commands that the end of the paragraph is in the scope of the size change, otherwise you get large text on a small baseline and irregular spacing.

\begin{center} {

LaTeX environments imply grouping so you don't need (and in some cases must not have) the extra `{' group around the environment contents. In this case it is mostly harmless, but it would be better to use simply

\begin{center}

Each of your environments is a full width display, aligned left right or center, so they come one below the other. You want a three column layout, so the simplest thing is to use a table.

\usepackage{array}

....

   \begin{tabular}{%
     >{\raggedright\large\bfseries}p{3cm}%
     >{\centering}p{5cm}%
     >{\raggedright\arraybackslash}p{2cm}%
     %
Contact Information&
address here .. &
Voice\\
...
\end{tabular}

Answer 3

Another option would be to use tabular-like environments; in the following example I used tabular environments inside a tabularx:

\documentclass[letterpaper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{}>{\bfseries}XXX@{}}
\multicolumn{3}{@{}l}{\huge\bfseries Shashwat Pant} 
\\ \toprule
Contact Information
& 
{
\begin{tabular}[t]{X}
S/O Late Dr. S.N Pant \\
Flat No - 391, Block D-3 \\
Penta Homes, VIP Road \\
Zirakpur - 140603 \\
Punjab , IN
\end{tabular}
}
&
{
\begin{tabular}[t]{ll}
  Voice: & \texttt{+}000 99 999 99 \\
  Email: & \texttt{email@gmail.com} \\
  Twitter: & \texttt{shashpant} \\
  GitHub: & \texttt{shashpant}
\end{tabular}
}
\\
\end{tabularx}

\end{document}

Unrelated, but useful: never use two consecutive line changing commands \\ \\ (this will produce underfull boxes warnings); instead of the old \bf form, one should use \bfseries in modern LaTeX documents.