Installing modern-cv locally (on MacOS)

[mgrimace]

I'm going to post my step-by-step novice instructions here in case I forget, as it was a bit harder for me to figure out how to install this initially since I'd never used Typst before. For windows you can probably just use the bundled installer script but I couldn't figure that out on Mac.

Install modern-cv locally on a mac

Install typst and fonts

• In terminal brew install typst
• Install the fonts as listed in the modern-cv readme manually by downloading them, and importing them into Font Book

Install modern-cv

• download the source code.zip found on github in the releases section. Select the most current release, which in this example is 0.6.0. Unzip/extract it.
• there should now be a folder in your 'Downloads' folder called modern-cv-0.6.0
• in Finder, go to ~/Library/Application Support (e.g., open finder, select 'go' in the menubar, 'go to folder' and paste that in)
• create a new folder here called typst, open that folder and create a new folder called packages, open that and create a new folder called local
• inside local, create a new folder called modern-cv, and finally, inside there, create one last folder named with the release number that you downloaded, for example 0.6.0.
• you should have a pathway now that looks like: /Users/[your user name]/Library/Application Support/typst/packages/local/modern-cv/0.6.0
• copy/paste or drag the contents of modern-cv-0.6.0 that you downloaded and extracted earlier into this new 0.6.0 folder.

Customize the template

• You can make changes to the lib.typ in this folder, for example adding/removing sections.

Use your new customized template

• In your resume.typ or cover.typ, change the first line to #import "@local/modern-cv:0.6.0": * by using '@Local' it tells it to use the template that we set up locally.
• Optionally, add new tag folders as they are released (e.g., modern-cv/0.7.0, etc.)

I'm sure there's easier and more efficient was of doing this, and hopefully this helps.

[DeveloperPaul123]

Thanks for this. I think I do need to create some sort of "build" instruction for different platforms and maybe add more scripts to help this.

[DeveloperPaul123]

There's now new scripts you can use to easily install typst locally though I haven't tested them on macOS (only) linux.