[comp.text] TeX formatting standards...

ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) (01/15/88)

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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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