[gwbas1c]

> I think LaTeX is a far superior choice, yet the author pretty much dimissed it as a possibility.

Learning curve is a thing: I've never touched LaTeX, and I don't anticipate using it in the future. If I wanted to automate a thing as a learning project, I probably would rule out LaTeX unless I had a reason to want to learn it.

[RheingoldRiver]

You don't really need to know LaTeX to do a resume in LaTeX, you just need to get a template and add your data to it

source: my resume is the only thing in LaTeX I've touched in over a decade

[DEADMINCEDOS]

> I probably would rule out LaTeX unless I had a reason to want to learn it.

The reason is that it's one of the best tools suited to this kind of work.

[edflsafoiewq]

You can also use HTML+CSS and print to PDF.