span minipage content over multiple pages

Question

I'm writing my own layout for the CV (that I'd like to convert into a public class), and I'm trying to have a two-column layout like the following:

where for each section the summary on the left side is a minipage, and the content another one, but wider.

As soon as I added more work experiences, I realized that LaTeX tried to put on a new minipage. I have made some search and the community suggests I should use flowfram, but I tried to take inspiration from other classes, where I saw some workaround using tabular.

The pros of flowfram is its easiness, but I would like to put each section's title with the content (well, as you can see not exactly. I place a little space above). Tabular seems to be the answer, but it sounds like the web in the old 90's.

So here is the question: which of the two I should use? Are there any other ways to accomplish that neatly?

»Which of the two I should use?« Closing as opinion-based. A proper questions must include the desired behavior, a specific problem or error and the shortest code necessary to reproduce it in the question itself. Questions without a clear problem statement are not useful to other readers. See minimal working example (MWE). — Henri Menke, Jul 28 '17 at 03:20

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 28 '17 at 05:51

A breakable sort of minipage can be done with the tcolorbox package.

The following could do the job. Observe that the WORK EXPERIENCE box is broken from page 1 to page 2.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[skins,breakable]{tcolorbox}

\newtcolorbox{cvbox}[2][]{%
  blanker,
  leftupper=4cm,
  after skip=8mm,%   enlarge distance to the next box
  title=#2,
  breakable,
  fonttitle=\sffamily\bfseries,
  coltitle=cyan,
  fontupper=\sffamily,%
  #1
}

\begin{document}

\begin{cvbox}{SUMMARY}
  \lipsum[1]
\end{cvbox}

\begin{cvbox}{HIGHTLIGHTS}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item Methodical
    \item Blabla
  \end{itemize}
\end{cvbox}

\begin{cvbox}{WORK EXPERIENCE}
  \lipsum[2-5]
\end{cvbox}

\begin{cvbox}{CONCLUSION}
  \lipsum[6]
\end{cvbox}

\end{document}

span minipage content over multiple pages

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