Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 22:37:52 -0500 From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> To: freebsd-jobs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Word .doc format Not wanted. Message-ID: <20011108223752.A65221@hal9000.halplant.com> In-Reply-To: <200111082256.OAA73633@cinnamon.com>; from bandy@cinnamon.com on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:56:37PM -0800 References: <20011108224229.A3841@roughtrade.net> <200111082256.OAA73633@cinnamon.com>
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Andrew Beals <bandy@cinnamon.com> wrote... > And the whole HTML thing is made more difficult by the silly decision to posit > that there are seven values for <font size=X>... 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
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