Re: Critique my thesis typesetting?

On 2008-10-26, dkjk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <dkjk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Would any LaTeX gurus here be willing to comment on the typesetting of
my thesis and/or suggest possible improvements?

I am far from being a guru, but here are a few comments:

- as soon as I've opened the document, my first impression was "this looks
like Word production" (probably because of the Times font)
- is this 12 point font? with 11- or even 10-point you could have made
larger margins and still have the same amount of pages (narrower text is
easier to read, at least for me)
- having 1, 1.1 and nothing after (i.e. following at least 1.2) indicates "bad
structuring" according to some people I've talked with on the topic before
("Nomenclature" would be a fine place to move it to)

On a side-note: what did you use to draw commutative diagrams and "springs"?
Graphs look as if produced with Mathematica - am I correct? -- unequal upper
and lower bounds of side-by-side graphs is also symptomatic for Mathematica :)
[e.g. see figure 4]

Anyway, "beautiful" is very subjective, and I would probably like your text
much better with plain report package (maybe scrreprt) without any extra font
tweaks.

.

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