Package moderncv: pagebreak in \cvitem

Question

I am using moderncv and would like to implement pagebreaks in \cvitem.

This post (Page breaks within moderncv) is similar, but the cvitem environment appears to be more tricky than the cventry one, which was discussed there.

As in the other link I would like to add a long list:

\cvitem{here is a longer caption that does not fit into one tab}{
    \begin{itemize}
        \item Item 1;
        % Lots of items here
        \item Item n.
    \end{itemize}
}

Because of the title being long, it is not an option to do this:

\cvitem{caption}{item1}
\cvitem{}{item2}
\cvitem{}{item3}

I tried to manually define a \cvitemlong environment (by defining longtables) that would allow for pagebreaks, but didn't find a working solution. Does anyone have an idea how to solve this in an easy way?

Cheers, Mil

Answer 1

A way to do this is to use a \phantom command with the list \cvitem and so have the correct alignement:

\cvitem{caption}{item1}
\cvitem{\phantom{caption}}{item2}
\cvitem{\phantom{caption}}{item3}

Of course you can define a new command to write less character:

\newcommand{\foo}{\phantom{caption}}
\cvitem{caption}{item1}
\cvitem{\foo}{item2}
\cvitem{\foo}{item3}