LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)
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LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)
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Re: LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)
#2This is great advice.
I only contend on two things. First is recommending Strunk and White - in general a style guide should not stifle writers' voices and instead equip them with tools to express their own. Here I would rather recommend the far more authoritative and comprehensive The Chicago Manual of Style [1]. Second is excess punctuation - easily incurs in too much line noise. You should generally avoid adding distracting elements seldom added pro forma.
The best source for me has been the Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences by Nicholas J. Higham [1]. His I can fully get behind. Another is Writing Mathematics Well by Leonard Gillman [3]. Still another is Mathematical Writing by Franco Vivaldi [4].
[1] https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html
[2] https://epubs.siam.org/doi/book/10.1137/1.9781611976106
[3] https://bookstore.ams.org/mmbk-7/
[4] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4471-6527-9
Re: LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)
#3I'm surprised at how applicable this is to writing in general. Very good guide.
Re: LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)
#4This is great advice. I only contend on two things. First is recommending Strunk and White - in general a style guide should not stifle writers' voices and instead equip them with tools to express their own. Here I would rather recommend the far more authoritative and comprehensive The Chicago Manual of Style [1]. Second is excess punctuation - easily incurs in too much line noise. You should generally avoid adding d…
May I add a more concise yet helpful presentation of Prof. Bertsekas Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing
Re: LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)
#5This is great advice. I only contend on two things. First is recommending Strunk and White - in general a style guide should not stifle writers' voices and instead equip them with tools to express their own. Here I would rather recommend the far more authoritative and comprehensive The Chicago Manual of Style [1]. Second is excess punctuation - easily incurs in too much line noise. You should generally avoid adding d…
With regard to your comment, and since we are on the subject of style, I would rephrase "... only contend on two things" as "... only differ on two things". While it is grammatically correct, it feels awkward.
Re: LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)
#6This is great advice. I only contend on two things. First is recommending Strunk and White - in general a style guide should not stifle writers' voices and instead equip them with tools to express their own. Here I would rather recommend the far more authoritative and comprehensive The Chicago Manual of Style [1]. Second is excess punctuation - easily incurs in too much line noise. You should generally avoid adding d…
With regard to your comment, and since we are on the subject of style, I would rephrase "... only contend on two things" as "... only differ on two things". While it is grammatically correct, it feels awkward.
You're right, thanks. English is not my mother tongue so I still fall for some language traps.
Re: LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)
#7This is great advice. I only contend on two things. First is recommending Strunk and White - in general a style guide should not stifle writers' voices and instead equip them with tools to express their own. Here I would rather recommend the far more authoritative and comprehensive The Chicago Manual of Style [1]. Second is excess punctuation - easily incurs in too much line noise. You should generally avoid adding d…
May I add a more concise yet helpful presentation of Prof. Bertsekas Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing https://www.mit.edu/~dimitrib/Ten_Rules.pdf
Nice! I haven't seen this one yet.
I submitted a link here earlier in the same spirit that you might appreciate:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22https://mathcomm.org/writin...
Re: LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)
#8This is great advice. I only contend on two things. First is recommending Strunk and White - in general a style guide should not stifle writers' voices and instead equip them with tools to express their own. Here I would rather recommend the far more authoritative and comprehensive The Chicago Manual of Style [1]. Second is excess punctuation - easily incurs in too much line noise. You should generally avoid adding d…
May I add a more concise yet helpful presentation of Prof. Bertsekas Ten Simple Rules for Mathematical Writing https://www.mit.edu/~dimitrib/Ten_Rules.pdf
Does anyone have suggestions for math textbooks that follow these writing rules?
Re: LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)
#9This is great advice. I only contend on two things. First is recommending Strunk and White - in general a style guide should not stifle writers' voices and instead equip them with tools to express their own. Here I would rather recommend the far more authoritative and comprehensive The Chicago Manual of Style [1]. Second is excess punctuation - easily incurs in too much line noise. You should generally avoid adding d…
With regard to your comment, and since we are on the subject of style, I would rephrase "... only contend on two things" as "... only differ on two things". While it is grammatically correct, it feels awkward.
I would comment to drop the preposition:
“…only contend two things”
I think the trouble in the phrase is that “contend” has an active sense to it whereas “on” creates a more passive tone. Your solution is to swap to a more passive phrasing, but the alternative is also available.
Re: LaTeX Style Guide for EE 364B [pdf] (2014)
#10My personal pet peeve is point 3 under "Use the right commands"
There are quite a few math textbooks that don't use \left and \right, even with tall notation like integral signs. The resulting expressions are much harder to parse visually.