David Hewitt wrote:
>
> Filippo Zangheri-2 wrote:
>>> [1] I suggest correcting the alignment mismatch in a more drastic way:
>>> in "moderncv.cls" around line 333 the \cvline command is defined like
>>> this:
>>>
>>> \newcommand*{\cvline}[3][.25em]{%
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>> after the second line you can add the following line:
>>>
>>> \vspace*{-1.1em}
>>>
>>> so that the entire command definition looks like this:
>>>
>>> <LaTeX>
>>>
>>> \newcommand*{\cvline}[3][.25em]{%
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> \vspace*{-1.1em}% fixes an alignment mismatch between first leftmark
>>> and related text
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> \else%
>>> \\[#1]\fi%
>>> \raggedleft\hintfont{#2} }
>>>
>>> </LaTeX>
>>>
>>> Now you can avoid putting all those "Space: <something>" after each
>>> Section title.
>> There's the need for a precisation.
>>
>> Actually, my "drastic" correction is useful only either if you will always
>> use LyX to write moderncv
>> documents, or if you will always append 1 or 2 empty lines after every
>> \section{} entry in your
>> plaintext moderncv documents, e.g.
>>
>> something like this:
>>
>> <LaTeX>
>> \section{Professional Experience}
>> \cventry{Jul--Aug 2007}{foo}{bar}{?}{?}{?}
>> </LaTeX>
>>
>> wouldn't work with my correction, but you would need to write this:
>>
>> <LaTeX>
>> \section{Professional Experience}
>>
>> \cventry{Jul--Aug 2007}{foo}{bar}{?}{?}{?}
>> </LaTeX>
>>
>> or>
> Xavier Danaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
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> David Hewitt
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>>
>> <LaTeX>
>> \section{Professional Experience}\\
>> \cventry{Jul--Aug 2007}{foo}{bar}{?}{?}{?}
>> </LaTeX>
>>
>> Under these 2 circumstances one can safely add my correction.
>>
>
> Nice work.
>
> Some of the problem(s) with the \cvline specification in this class file
> have been noted in the Bug (at least in part):
>
> http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4415
>
> Xavier, the maintainer of moderncv, is aware of some of these things. I'd
> suggest that you flip him a condensed version of these two points and let
> him incorporate them, particularly the error on line 367. I'd prefer not to
> offer class file hacks on the wiki as a solution for formatting when there
> are other options and Xavier is working on them. However, the fix on line
> 367 is a good spot, and it's documented here if people need it until Xavier
> fixes it.
Patch correcting "line 366 bug" was submitted to Xavier.
I agree with about everything you say, but the first issue (line 333) is not a
LaTeX-related issue, as it emerges only if you use LyX -- which adds blank
lines for readability. For this reason I'm not mentioning this to Xavier.
Am I wrong?
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