At last i have finished the report "From Tradition to Insight Support - What we can ask to our Chemistry Visualization tools". I'm quite happy of the result. But before this you should pass through the "review agony": the more you read it, the more errors you find. This, plus no one that help and sympathize with you.
Anyway, here are some sparse ideas i want to share with you about the "review agony":
- Colleagues are always busy and do not find time to help you reading and correcting your paper. I do not speak about reviewing the content of the paper. This is asking too much. It is simply asking to read and correct the language.
- Correcting and revising a paper works better on paper with a red pen. On video is not the same. Why?
- It is vital to have a deadline. Everytime you re-read the paper you find things to change or polish. So it is important to force yourself to stop.
- A tool like latex2rtf is really useful. Word is really helpful for spotting errors. Well, you have to take cum grano salis its suggestions.
- When you find a reference, you should enter it immediately in a Bibtex database. Otherwise entering it during the paper writing is a mess.
- Latex is really not so bad. If you do not do anything too complex it is really simple to use.
- Remove the "Latex look" from documents produced using Latex. You now, this peculiar font and spacing. that make them immediately recognizable. Well, I added a simple \usepackage{txfonts} and \usepackage{parskip} and everything looks more interesting (try it).
- Same source, different result on Linux and Windows. Bleah!
Labels: latex, peer review, writing
