I was trying to compose my CV (as a mathematician) in LaTeX, and found the document class res on CTAN that appealed to me aesthetically. The cls file for this document class can be found here: http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/resume/res.cls.
However, there is a strange problem with the tabular
environment in this class. The row spacing is insufficient when a paragraph cell has multiple lines. Consider the following example (using res.cls
linked above):
\documentclass{res}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{p{4in}}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin a justo
in lorem. \\
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin a justo
in lorem. \\
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin a justo
in lorem. \\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
The output I get is:
As you can see, adjacent rows are too close—the letters "j" and "L" almost touched each other.
In comparison, below is what I get from amsart
(replacing res
with amsart
in the above code snippet):
and below is what I get from article
:
Both of these have much reasonable spacing.
Since I know nothing about document class writing, could anyone help me look into res.cls
and identify what's wrong with the spacing? And is it possible to somehow fix this issue in res.cls
? Thanks in advance.
I am fully aware that this question might be too localized to be constructive; however, I can't find other helpful sources to resolve this issue. Sure I might have an answer myself after reading the TeXbook or other multi-hundred-page TeX programming reference manuals, but this is not so realistic for a lay LaTeX user who focuses mainly on content (after all, content is what LaTeX emphasizes). I apologize for my potential abuse of this site.
By the way, if you know any simple and elegant CV document class suitable for mathematicians (in academia), you are more than welcome to leave me a comment. Thanks.
p
cells is also stretched (notice that the original issue only occurs when thep
cell spans multiple lines).res
class is dated 1989; a revision for making it compatible with LaTeX2e has been made in 2001. There are far better classes for CVs.