(b)logophile

I’ve always used prosper for presentations, but someone recently put me onto beamer, and I must say I’m impressed. It lets you structure your file using standard LaTeX sectioning, and produces section-level tables of contents by default. There are 26 different themes, and an architecture for easy colour-scheme changes and so on. The documentation (beameruserguide.pdf) [...]

This essay comes from my experiences proofreading LaTeX documents, both semi-professionally and for friends. It is intended mainly for technical writing, where LaTeX really comes into its own and where attention to detail can both greatly assist the proofreader or typesetter, and greatly improve the readability of the manuscript. This is neither a description of [...]