texpresso VS pandoc_resume

> I would love to hear of other low(er) barrier-to-entry ways to use LaTeX, because it’s a pretty steep commitment for someone who isn’t a professional writer.

I have been working on and off on a fork of LaTeX with real-time feedback: you can see the document and error messages rendered and updated live. It also supports SyncTeX (going from a source line to the corresponding output and vice-versa).

I added vim support recently, you can see it in action there: https://github.com/let-def/texpresso.vim

I recently had a coworker share a resume they had created with LaTeX. It was beautiful.

As someone not as interested in committing fully to LaTeX — but wanting a similar outcome — I found that I could achieve a pretty but easy to edit resume with Markdown and rendered via Pandoc because Pandoc supports LaTeX (among many other formats).

Here is a great GitHub repo that helped me get started: https://github.com/mszep/pandoc_resume

I would love to hear of other low(er) barrier-to-entry ways to use LaTeX, because it’s a pretty steep commitment for someone who isn’t a professional writer.