raphink / moderntimeline

A timeline package for moderncv

Moderntimeline

Timelines for use with moderncv.

This LaTeX package provides commands to configure and to draw timeline diagrams; such diagrams are designed to fit into Curriculum Vitae documents written using the moderncv class.

moderntimeline's Issues

Labels over timelines edges

Depending in the size of the label and how near to the edge it is, it goes over the timeline edge to the page border or the content. Examples:

Odd start/end label placement on short bars

Hi,

Thanks for your package! I actually use it a couple of years already.

One thing that always bothered me a little is the way how start and end labels are positioned on short bars:

As you can see, the end date is behind the start date, which can be confusing to people reading your CV. A way to improve this a little bit would be to just put both start and end date above the bar:

Maybe it would be convenient to introduce another macro for this, something like \tlsinglelabelcventry? What do you think?
I could create a PR for that, if you agree.

Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).

I am writing a CV with moderncv and moderntimeline package.

Last month everything went well but since last week, I got this error:

Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).

The error shows to the first entry of employment/education. I am using \tlcventry.

Here is my TeX Live version:

TeX 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2016/Debian)
kpathsea version 6.2.2
Copyright 2016 D.E. Knuth.

Packages used:
geometry, url, eurosym, moderntimeline.

Please help. Thanks.

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}   
\definecolor{darkgreen}{rgb}{0,0.5,0.0}
\moderncvstyle{banking}                
\moderncvcolor{blue}                   
\usepackage[scale=0.8]{geometry}
\firstname{Kisu}
\familyname{Terduba}
\title{Curriculum Vita{\ae}}                          
\address{8888 Kota 16419}{Republic of Negara}    
\mobile{+88~88~8888~8888}                     
\phone{+88~(88)~888~8888}                     
\fax{+88~(88)~888~8888}                        
\email{[email protected]}                          
\homepage{https://about.me/kisu}       
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{eurosym}
\usepackage{moderntimeline}

\begin{document}
\makecvtitle

\tlwidth{0.8ex}
\tltext{\tiny}

\section{Employment}
\tlmaxdates{2007}{2019}
\tlcventry{2010}{0}{Assistant Professor}{Somewhere University}{Republic of Negara}{}{}{}
\tlcventry{2012}{2015}{Assistant Professor}{President University}{Tengah}{}{}{}
\tlcventry{2007}{2010}{Assistant Professor}{The University of Nakal}{Semenanjung Campus}{}{}{}

\section{Education}
\tlmaxdates{1997}{2006}
\tlcventry{2003}{2006}{PhD in Applied Mathematics}{Universiteit Enskede}{Belanda}{}{}
\tlcventry{2001}{2003}{Master of Mathematical Sciences}{Universiteit Tyreso}{Tyreso}{}{}
\tlcventry{1997}{2001}{BS in Mathematics}{Institute of Technology}{Java}{}{}

\end{document}

A way to render starting dates that are too early

It would be great if when the starting date is earlier than the "firstyear", the bar is drawn as a gradient with the white end at "firstyear".

I tried to submit a patch, but it's taking me too much time to get a hang of tikz :(

Undefined control sequence. \tlenablemakrsyr

As the title states. Using the latest version from CTAN. \tlenablemarksmo works fine.

Incompatibility with \usetikzlibrary{positioning}

Thanks for this cool packase. But if I add \usetikzlibrary{positioning}, the label of \tlcventry are misplaced (flying like 5cm above).

MWE:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{moderncv}
\moderncvtheme[blue]{classic}
\usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, left=2cm, right=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{moderntimeline}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning} % ?? This breaks moderntimeline?? See the flying 2018?

\tlmaxdates{2012}{2024}
\tlrunningcolor{gray}

\firstname{foo}
\familyname{bar}
\title{foo}
\address{}
\email{}

\begin{document}
\vspace*{10cm}
\section{Test}

\tlcventry{2018}{2019}{Some stuff}{Some place}{Foo}{Bla}{See that the 2018 is flying? Disabling \texttt{\textbackslash usetikzlibrary\{positioning\}} fixes it, but of course this is not a proper solution since one might need this library.}

\end{document}

pgfkeys error

I'm getting the following error:

! Package pgfkeys Error: I do not know the key '/tikz/color1' and I am going to
ignore it. Perhaps you misspelled it.

I have tried it with your CV to make sure I is not an user error, here is the log: https://gist.github.com/5e4a208bfe0f324b352f

Any idea?

Inconsistent spacing between tldatecventry and tldatelabelcventry

Minmal working example:

\documentclass{moderncv}
\usepackage[firstyear=2013,lastyear=2016]{moderntimeline}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\name{John}{Doe}
\begin{document}
\makecvtitle
\tldatecventry[orange]{2015}{aaa}{bbb}{ccc}{ddd}{eee}
\tldatelabelcventry[red]{2013/8}{August 2014}{aaa}{bbb}{ccc}{ddd}{eee}
\end{document}

In the tldatelabelcventry case, the timeline is too high.

\tlwidth and \tlrunningwidth lines changing height and not width

As described in the documentation I was expecting to be able to adjust the timelines with so that they are smaller than the hints columns. But instead when using those commands is the height of the lines that are adjusted.

Incompatibility with todonotes package

If the todonotes package is used, either in its disabled or activated form:

\usepackage[disabled]{todonotes}
\usepackage[draft]{todonotes}

the start date (or date label) is wrongly printed to the top of the page:

I used the following code:

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv}
\usepackage[firstyear=2010,lastyear=2018]{moderntimeline}

\moderncvstyle{casual}
\moderncvcolor{blue}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[ngerman, english]{babel}

\usepackage[disable]{todonotes}

% personal data
\name{John}{Doe}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\section{Education}
\tlcventry{2015}{2016}{University}{}{}{}{}
\end{document}

CTAN still shows v0.9 as the latest version

Hi,

I see that a v0.10 is available but CTAN still shows v0.9: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/moderntimeline

Many linux distributions are missing the latest version for this reason.

Thanks,
Antonio

\tllabelcventry not working properly

I have a similar problem with this issue:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/612499/issue-with-moderntimeline-and-tllabelcventry

The end date is displayed with the label but the documentation clearly say.
"when this is used, the dates are not typeset around the time line, only the label is placed where the start date would normally be."

timeline with marks

I saw this (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/204964/how-to-show-off-tex-skills-with-a-tex-typeset-cv). Is there an option in moderntimeline to add marks as shown in this image?

wrong label placement - compatibility issue?

I introduced the moderntimeline package in my exsisting cv, but the labels of \tlcventry are out of place.
I have no problems when compiling a fresh mwe. Maybe there is a compatibility issue?

minimal non-working output: http://db.cutt.in/moderntimeline.pdf
minimal non-working file: http://db.cutt.in/moderntimeline.tex

Possiblilty to change start and enddate

so startdate shown below the bar and enddate on the top...

Shaded start timeline

Hobbies and school years, might start before the actual first year, where the „more relevant“ stuff happened. It’d be great to have some kind of mechanism, that the left part is shaded, if the year is smaller than first year.

\documentclass{moderncv}
\usepackage[firstyear=2002,lastyear=2021]{moderntimeline}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\name{John}{Doe}
\begin{document}
\makecvtitle

\section{Section}
\tlcventry{1998}{0}{GNU School}{The Internet}{}{}{Learning about free software}
\tlcventry{2002}{0}{GNU employment}{GNU Company}{}{}{Did great things}
\end{document}

Wrong placement of \tlcventry bar

I have an experience which ends in 2014 (specifically december) and the next one starts in 2015.
Without cheating with the start year (putting 2014 instead of 2015), there is an "hole" in the ideal continuity of the various time bars.
Original output:

Hole colored in orange:

tllabelcventry is broken in 0.11

\documentclass{moderncv}
\usepackage[firstyear=2000,lastyear=2025]{moderntimeline}
\moderncvstyle{classic}
\moderncvcolor{blue}
\name{John}{Doe}
\begin{document}
\makecvtitle
\tllabelcventry{2005}{2020}{end}{Scribus Student}{GNU School}{The Internet}{}{Tried Scribus for a short while}
\end{document}

Result

Expected result: No 2020 in the timeline, but only "end".

It works by doing

\tllabelcventry{2005}{2020}{end///}{Scribus Student}{GNU School}{The Internet}{}{Tried Scribus for a short while}

Thanks @exaexa for the "workaround".

Additional Style for tlcventry?

While I love the package in general, I wish the the tlcventry was more like the tldatecventry, specifically:

• rounded corners for start and end date
• edgy corners for ongoing entries (instead of the changing color)
• the thick line centered on the thin one (like the centered dot for tldatecventry)
• start and end date centered above / below the respective side of tlcventry

Unfortunately I have no knowledge about tikz and I'm just a LaTeX "user", so not sure if this is even possible or how to get it started. General feedback or any pointers would be much appreciated...

Cheers,
Philipp