Problem with last version of font awesome in moderncv

Question

After updating fontawesome package I can't comile my moderncv-document.

It works without \moderncvicons{awesome}.

% !TeX TS-program = xelatex

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}


\name{John}{Doe}
\title{Resum\`e title} 
\phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890}
\phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
\phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
\email{[email protected]}   
\homepage{www.johndoe.com} 
\social[linkedin]{john.doe} 
\social[twitter]{jdoe}      
\social[github]{jdoe}       

\moderncvicons{awesome}


\begin{document}

\makecvtitle

\section{Experience}
\subsection{Vocational}
\cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description no longer than 1--2 lines.\newline{}%
Detailed achievements:%
\begin{itemize}%
\item Achievement 1;
\item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
  \begin{itemize}%
  \item Sub-achievement (a);
  \item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
    \begin{itemize}
    \item Sub-sub-achievement i;
    \item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
    \item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
    \end{itemize}
  \item Sub-achievement (c);
  \end{itemize}
\item Achievement 3.
\end{itemize}}

\end{document}

Answer 1

The following restores the missing \faLinkedInSign and \faCircleBlank required under XeLaTeX (taken from Revision 29485 of moderncv):

% !TeX TS-program = xelatex

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}

\name{John}{Doe}
\title{Resum\'e title} 
\phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890}
\phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
\phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
\email{[email protected]}   
\homepage{www.johndoe.com} 
\social[linkedin]{john.doe} 
\social[twitter]{jdoe}      
\social[github]{jdoe}       

\moderncvicons{awesome}

%\renewcommand*{\addresssymbol}       {}
\renewcommand*{\mobilephonesymbol}   {{\Large\faMobilePhone}~~}
\renewcommand*{\fixedphonesymbol}    {\faPhone~~}
\renewcommand*{\faxphonesymbol}      {\faPrint~~}              % alternative: \faFileAlt
\renewcommand*{\emailsymbol}         {\faEnvelope~~}           % alternative: \faInbox
\renewcommand*{\homepagesymbol}      {\faGlobe~~}              % alternative: \faHome
\renewcommand*{\linkedinsocialsymbol}{\faLinkedinSign~~}       % alternative: \faLinkedin
\renewcommand*{\twittersocialsymbol} {\faTwitter~~}
\renewcommand*{\githubsocialsymbol}  {\faGithub~~}

\def\faLinkedinSign{{\FA\symbol{"F08C}}}
\def\faCircleBlank{{\FA\symbol{"F10C}}}
\DeclareRobustCommand{\FA}{%
  \fontencoding{EU1}\fontfamily{FontAwesome(0)}\fontsize{5}{5}\selectfont}

\begin{document}

\makecvtitle

\section{Experience}
\subsection{Vocational}
\cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description no longer than 1--2 lines.\newline{}%
Detailed achievements:
\begin{itemize}%
  \item Achievement 1;
  \item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
    \begin{itemize}%
      \item Sub-achievement (a);
      \item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
        \begin{itemize}
        \item Sub-sub-achievement i;
        \item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
        \item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
        \end{itemize}
      \item Sub-achievement (c);
    \end{itemize}
  \item Achievement 3.
\end{itemize}}

\end{document}

Additionally I've added some more spaces after the symbols so that they don't seem as close to the tombstone information.

A forced \fontsize{5}{5} for using the FontAwesome fonts (via \FA) seemed appropriate.

Answer 2

Looking at revision 147 of moderncv, I am using following workaround with version 1.5.1 of moderncv as included in TeXLive 2015: \def\faCircleBlank{{\faCircleO}}. Make sure to place that directly after \documentclass, before \moderncvstyle or similar!

Another solution would be to update to version 2.0.0 of moderncv.

Answer 3

There are two errors: 1) that being the extra "}" as indicated; 2) a section that needed to be enclosed in the \cventry section; 3) the fontspec package is missing. The code here compiles properly.

% !TeX TS-program = xelatex

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\usepackage[scale=0.75]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontawesome}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\moderncvicons{awesome}

\name{John}{Doe}
\title{R\'{e}sum\'{e} title} 
\phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890}
\phone[fixed]{+2~(345)~678~901}
\phone[fax]{+3~(456)~789~012}
\email{[email protected]}   
\homepage{www.johndoe.com} 
\social[linkedin]{john.doe} 
\social[twitter]{jdoe}      
\social[github]{jdoe}       



\begin{document}

\makecvtitle

\section{Experience}
\subsection{Vocational}
\cventry{year--year}{Job title}{Employer}{City}{}{General description no longer than 1--2 lines.\newline{}%
Detailed achievements:}%
\begin{itemize}%
\item Achievement 1;
\item Achievement 2, with sub-achievements:
  \begin{itemize}%
  \item Sub-achievement (a);
  \item Sub-achievement (b), with sub-sub-achievements (don't do this!);
    \begin{itemize}
    \item Sub-sub-achievement i;
    \item Sub-sub-achievement ii;
    \item Sub-sub-achievement iii;
    \end{itemize}
  \item Sub-achievement (c);
  \end{itemize}
\item Achievement 3.
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

The code produces: