You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 08:06:54PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On 16 August 2010 17:41, Oleg Goldshmidt <pub at goldshmidt.org> wrote:

> > My CV is written in LaTeX as well. I convert it to HTML using
> > latex2html and do some relatively minor manual tweaks to the
> > result. I go through this effort specifically for people who do
> > not have a PDF reader.
> 
> All this effort to prove that you don't succumb to the fluff of
> using an office suite?

Not answering for Oleg, but since I do the same thing -- indeed, my CV
.tex template is based on Oleg's -- all this effort because writing
and modifying text documents with complex layout in LaTeX is *less*
effort for me than doing the equivalent in your favorite office
suite. YMMV.

Cheers,
Muli