Advice on LaTeX

• Use modern implementations of LaTeX to take advantage of Unicode and other useful features.
  • Use LuaLaTeX instead of LaTeX or pdfLaTeX
  • Use BibLaTeX instead of BibTex
• Use correct typefaces. Particularly, italics should be used for variables but not for descriptive terms. More...
  • Wrong: $t_{max}$
  • Right: $t_\text{max}$
• Do not manually add separators in large numbers. \usepackage{siunitx}. Then, wrap large numbers in \num{}.
  • Bad: 12,345
  • Good: \num{12345}
• Do not manually type reference names, such as Table, Figure, Theorem. Instead, \usepackage{hyperref}, and then \autoref{fig:xxx}, \autoref{tbl:xxx}, \autoref{thm:xxx}
  • Not recommended: In Figure~\ref{fig:overview}
  • Good: In \autoref{fig:overview}