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"Motivation isn't enough. If you've an idiot & you motivate him, now you've a motivated idiot."
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For every problem, there is always a solution that is simple, neat, but wrong.
Best practices
- Use
pdflatex \input{filename}
instead ofpdflatex filename
. - Don't specify the file extension in
\includegraphics
. - Divide your project into a main & smaller input files & compile the main with
pdflatex
. - Put each code snippet 4 either drawing a diagram or making a table into a standalone input file & compile it to produce a PDF.
- Define global macros 4 often-used materials, put them into a separate package thereby changing the macros in one place will effect the whole document.
- Remove unnecessary packages.
- Don't mix different series, families, font size, & shapes, ESPECIALLY IN ONE SENTENCE.
- Obey.