Agent Notes: marcelwa.github.io

This is Marcel Walter’s personal academic website (Jekyll, GitHub Pages, academicpages-derived theme).

CV and publication list (LaTeX)

cv-source/ holds the LaTeX sources for Marcel’s CV, cover letter, and publications list (Awesome-CV template, XeLaTeX + Roboto fonts under cv-source/fonts/). It was moved here from the ptp repo so the PDF CV and publication list live alongside the canonical record of the same content (this website), instead of a separate, harder-to-keep-in-sync repo.

Key points:

• cv-source/ is excluded from the built Jekyll site (_config.yml’s exclude: list). The PDF CV must never appear on the live website — it is kept here purely for safe-keeping and so both the PDF and the web CV (_pages/cv.md) can be updated together and stay consistent.
• Only .tex/.cls/.bib sources and the final compiled PDFs (cv.pdf, coverletter.pdf, publications_list.pdf) are tracked by git. LaTeX build artifacts (.aux, .log, .bbl, .bcf, .blg, .fdb_latexmk, .fls, .out, .run.xml, .synctex.gz, .xdv) are gitignored — see .gitignore.
• Build with latexmk -xelatex cv.tex (or coverletter.tex / publications_list.tex) from inside cv-source/. Requires XeLaTeX, latexmk, and biber.
• The ptp repo (Marcel’s private application-materials vault) keeps a symlink at CV -> ../marcelwa.github.io/cv-source so existing workflows there (cd CV && latexmk ...) keep working unchanged. Edit the files here (or through that symlink — same underlying files); there is only one copy.

Keeping the PDF CV and the web CV in sync

_pages/cv.md (the human-readable /cv/ page) and cv-source/cv.tex + its cv-source/cv/*.tex sections describe the same career facts in two different formats. They are edited independently and can drift. When updating one, check whether the other needs the same update — e.g. a new job, award, or publication should normally go in both. _publications/ (one Markdown file per paper) should stay in sync with cv-source/bibliography.bib the same way: a paper added to one should generally be added to the other too.

Instructions for future agents

1. Treat this website as the up-to-date, authoritative record of Marcel’s CV content; when the LaTeX CV and this site disagree, ask which is correct rather than assuming either is right.
2. Never let cv-source/ leak into the published site. If you touch _config.yml’s exclude: list, keep cv-source in it.
3. Don’t commit LaTeX build junk — check .gitignore covers new artifact types if you introduce a new build tool.