From owner-freebsd-jobs Thu Nov 8 19:38: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-jobs@freebsd.org Received: from mail.halplant.com (24-168-203-47.wo.cox.rr.com [24.168.203.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3696A37B418 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 19:38:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id CC48019E; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 22:37:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 22:37:52 -0500 From: Andrew J Caines To: freebsd-jobs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Word .doc format Not wanted. Message-ID: <20011108223752.A65221@hal9000.halplant.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-jobs@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011108224229.A3841@roughtrade.net> <200111082256.OAA73633@cinnamon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111082256.OAA73633@cinnamon.com>; from bandy@cinnamon.com on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:56:37PM -0800 Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-jobs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Beals wrote... > And the whole HTML thing is made more difficult by the silly decision to posit > that there are seven values for ... I think you mean to say "the silly decision to recognise a tag for presentation in a markup language for content. HTML is great for resumes if it's used properly, that is used to _describe the content_ of your resume. If anyone thinks a word processor doing a "Save As... HTML" is going to give anything worthwhile, then they need to look closer at what it produces. Resumes are supposed to contain information - headers, paragraphs, tables, lists, bullet points, and so on. Don't forget the all-important H! You can link to the web site for a previous employer or a software project on which you work or maybe to more information about yourself. If you feel you absolutely must include some presentation elements, then do it right with CSS. In an idea world, one might hope that the person looks at your markup style and the document's standard conformance. Of course if mark up your resume properly, then any decent HTML to text converter should produce a presentable plain text resume which is suitable for all occasions without having to unnecessarily duplicate work. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-jobs" in the body of the message