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The Art of LaTeX: Common Mistakes, and Advice for Typesetting Beautiful, Delightful Proofs | Fan Pu Zeng

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When was the first time you had to use LaTeX? If you are like most people, it was probably suddenly forced upon you during your first math or CS class where you had to start writing proofs, with minimal guidance on how to get started. Unfortunately, this meant that while many people have good operational knowledge of LaTeX, there are still many small mistakes and best practices which are not followed, which are not corrected by TAs as they are either not severe enough to warrant a note, or perhaps even the TAs themselves are not aware of them. In this post, we cover some common mistakes that are made by LaTeX practitioners (even in heavily cited papers), and how to address them.

When was the first time you had to use LaTeX ? If you are like most people, it was probably suddenly forced upon you during your first math or CS class where you had to start writing proofs, with minimal guidance on how to get started other than something along the lines of “hey, check out this link on how to get things setup, and here are some basic commands, now go wild!”. Unfortunately, this meant that while many people have good operational knowledge of LaTeX and can get the job done, there are still many small mistakes and best practices which are not followed, which are not corrected by

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