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From: Ken Seefried iii
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1988 11:29
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1988 11:29
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After looking over a few of the papers that i have prepared with TeX, i was
appaled by the fact that they were so difficult to read in source form
because they had no real structure. Has anyone ever sat down and established
a set of guideline for formatting a TeX/LaTeX document?
What i am refering to is a set of readability rules, as now exsist for
programming languages.
As an example, i typically format a footnote as follows:
line of text before the footnote.
%
\footnote{The text of the footnote. If the footnote extends on more
than on line i indent it as such.}
%
the line after the footnote mark........
this sets the footnote appart from the rest of the text and improves
readability (for me ;-).
If I may be so bold, i feel rules such as these would be a useful thing
to establish, if indeed they have not been already...
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!umd5!purdue!gatech!ken From: ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: TeX formatting standards... Message-ID: <16936@gatech.edu> Date: 15 Jan 88 11:29:26 GMT Organization: School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Tech, Atlanta Lines: 31