If you’re tech-inclined, then you likely prefer to write your documents in plain text (for many reasons). In the tech-discilined humannties, however, documents are often expected to arive in Word’s .docx format. CVs are no different.
After endless fidling with \LaTex CV templates, I ultimately begunringly settled on using Word for my CV. But this was unsatisfactory, too.
As far as I can tell, pandoc does not support styles for org-mode. So we convert from (i) org-mode to markdown and then (ii) from markdown to docx.
pandoc -f org -t gfm cv.org | pandoc -f markdown -t docx --reference-doc=./reference.docx -o cv.docx
Using docx2pdf, we can invoke Word’s own pdf conversion feature from the command line:
docx2pdf cv.docx cv.pdf
And Walah: we have a professional-looking academic CV generated from org-mode.
sed -e 's_\\\[_\[_g' | sed -e 's_\\\]_\]_g'