Why write your CV in a word processor or generate it with a markup language if you could just have the real deal and write a PostScript file that parses and displays itself, as a quine?
ps.cv is a PostScript file that does exactly this. It parses the CV at the beginning of the file, renders it in a way that copying and pasting the contents from the displayed file retains all the markup information and adds a footer with all the roughly 100 lines of PostScript code necessary to parse the markup and display itself.
The PostScript file in this repository contains the CV of the fictional author Herbert Quine. The file cv.ps displayed as a PDF looks like cv.pdf and is based on the following CV markup (with the formatting being arbitrary, all the newlines and multiple spaces could be replaced with a single space each):
~ Herbert
~ Quine
- [email protected], github.com/fkettelhoit
- Roscommon, Ireland
~ About Me
/ Writer of experimental fiction
- I am like Cowley's odes, I belong not to art but to the history of art
- I deploy the servile, stubborn preservation of past and bygone books
- There is no European man or woman that's not a writer, potentially or in fact
~ Publications
/ Statements (1939)
- 8 stories, each prefiguring a good plot
- Each plot is then intentionally frustrated by the author
/ The Secret Mirror (1937)
- Two-act comedy, with the first act as the work of a character in the second act
- First act takes place in the country home of General Thrale
- Characters of the first act reappear in the second, under different names
/ April March (1936)
- Novel with nine different beginnings, trifurcating backwards in time
- "Regressive, ramifying fiction"
- "I have reclaimed for this novel the essential features of every game"
/ The God of the Labyrinth (1933)
- Detective story in which the solution given is wrong
- But this fact is not immediately obvious
- Incomprehensible murder in the early pages of the book
- Slow discussion in the middle
- Solution of the crime toward the end
- "Everyone believed that the chessplayer had met accidentally."
~ About this CV
/ A PostScript quine & markup parser
- This PostScript file is a quine, including and displaying its own code
- Copy all the text on this page, then paste it in a new file with a .ps extension
- The resulting .ps file will display the same CV with all of the code
- The CV is parsed as a whitespace-insensitive custom markup language
- Newlines and other whitespace can be used interchangeably
- The data for the CV is fully contained in the displayed CV
- The footer only contains the non-CV code
The above CV will be displayed as the following PDF:
