Research Notes | Manuscript Preparation in LaTeX

Overview

The computer science conferences have high tolerance for style variability, which leads to stark variances in the typesetting quality even for the final camera-ready version. Here is one such example: the left from [1] is much better than [2], which is a random sample from the same conference in the same year. As the latter is the impression of almost all of the papers from that conference, the paper [1] will easily stand out.

Template

  • Some of the templates look more professional than others. Whenever possible, we should such templates.

Fonts

  • Using lmodern package through \usepackage{lmodern} in preamble; this single command will significantly improve the first impression of the manuscript.

Graphics

Reference

  1. packages – Suggest a “nice” font family for my basic LaTeX template (text and math) – TeX – LaTeX Stack Exchange