11 Further Suggestions

Note: The effects of following the recommendations may only be observable in the printable versions of documents.

• If you want to emphasize something, best use:

  If you want to \emph{emphasize} something…

• Please avoid specifying white space like this: white $ \; $ space. Use \quad or \qquad instead, if necessary. However, sometimes it may be necessary for aesthetic reasons to introduce negative space in formulae: space $ \! $ in formulae. This can be processed without problems.
• For the dash, use a double instead of a single minus sign: – versus -. -- versus -.
• If you want to have three dots indicating an omission, we recommend to use the following LATEX command:

    Three single dots..., and the result of the LATEX command…

  Three single dots..., and the result of the \LaTeX command\dots

• If a dot is used in an abbreviation, an acronym or similar, indicate that it is not a period at the end of a sentence, using ~ instead of a simple space. Otherwise LATEX may set an incorrect spacing.

  The ~ does also indicate a non-breakable space, which is particularly useful for acronyms:

    U. S. A. should be bound together;

  as it is done here:

    U. S. A. using:

  …U.~S.~A. …

  This is also the reason why, e.g., citations should be bound to the preceding word as shown in the previous Section 9.

  …in the previous Section~\ref{section:cite_and_ref}.

• You may use hyphenation suggestions in plain text when you have to break a long word like here and LATEX doesn’t know the correct hyphenation:

    X-ray Bremsstrahlung

    X-ray Bremsstrahlung

  X-ray Bremsstrahlung
  X-ray Brems\-strahlung

  However, this is not allowed in section headers as this will confuse the converter.

• Please avoid empty lines between equation, list, table and figure environments and the surrounding text. Otherwise the following line will be indented. For better legibility of the source code, you can use empty comment lines starting with a % instead of empty lines:

    Don’t use that:

  

    Rather, use comment lines,

    or no blank lines at all:   That will prevent unwanted indentation and maintain a correct vertical spacing.
  Don’t use that:  
   
  $$ f = g. $$  
   
  Rather, use comment lines,  
  $$ f = g, $$  
  or no blank lines at all:  
  $$ f = g. $$  
  That will prevent...  
    

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