latex

To make words in Bibliographic titles appear in the capilization that you specify, enclose the word in curly braces, {}. So to ensure the word, VLSI is capitalized, put {VLSI}.

To create good PDF files which look good in Adobe Acrobat even at maximum zoom levels:

1. First run latex as many times as you need to resolve all references. This will produce your final *.dvi file. Let's assume it's called myfile.dvi.

   latex myfile.tex

2. Now that we have our myfile.dvi file, we need to convert it to postscript. This is the safest step for most applications. For example some Latex features will not appear in the document unless the *.dvi file is first converter to a Postscript (*.ps) file. One example is shading, by using the Latex shading package (available on CTAN). The "other" method I am elluding to is by converting directly to PDF by using dvipdfm or pdflatex. This usually works fine, however, I recommend going to Postscript first using dvips. You need to provide two key arguments: a) the paper size, and b) a PDF option. The paper size option is usually necessary because dvips is set up for A4 paper by default. Note, even if your postscript file looks like it fits on the page properly, it may not once you convert it to a PDF! The PDF option is necessary so that dvips includes outline fonts instead of bitmap fonts in the Postscript document. This is what will make our fonts look pretty in the final PDF document, and will allow the fonts to scale themselves when we zoom in. So the command we need to run is:
   

Here is a resume of mine done in latex using my resume.tex.txt template. Unfortunately the content in this resume is out-of-date so please don't look at the content too carefully. It was just an experiment to try to do my resume in Latex. A lot of people seem to like my template, so I keep these links here for all to enjoy. :-)

If you want your name centered, replace the header part with this:

\begin{center}
\textbf{\Large David Grant}
\end{center}
\begin{tabular*}{7in}{l@{\extracolsep{3.7in}}l}