[texhax] Formatting my resume: Eliminating vertical space before lists
Steve Schwartz
s.schwartz at imperial.ac.uk
Wed Jul 28 12:31:54 CEST 2010
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 16:52 +0100, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> I'd like to completely eliminate the extra vertical space before &
> after
> the list environment, so that the sentence "Exposure to ..." lines up
> with the word "Skills" just as "A career-track position..." lines up
> with "Objective". Is this possible with the list environment, or with
> any of its relatives & clones?
To add to the other suggestions, you can also achieve what (I think) you
want with a nested tabularx environment:
\begin{tabularx}{468bp}{r@{\hspace{8bp}}p{396bp}}
Objective & A career-track position in Electrical Engineering \\
Skills &
{\begin{tabularx}{396bp}[t]{@{}l@{}}
Exposure to advanced Control Systems techniques
including Kalman filtering.\\
Experience with real-time, embedded, and
device-driver programming techniques.
\end{tabularx}}
\\
References & Available upon request.\\
\end{tabularx}
Note that the nested tabularx environment needs to be surrounded by {}
or it fails (this is a documented "feature").
It took a bit of experimentation to get the [t] in the right place, and
to eliminate all the column separation space in the inner tabularx, but
once you see it it's obvious.
HTH
Steve
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