Writing

  Scientific writing

General tips and tools

• The package microtype helps improving the rendering of long text easily

• Quarto is an open-source library that enables to create dynamic scientific documents, presentations, and websites using Markdown, LaTeX, and a variety of programming languages (including python, R, etc.).

Templates

• This PhD template is for writting a PhD thesis with a separate title page. It aims at setting up all the necessary packages and create the base outline of a thesis.

• This quarto template is for presentations with an ENSTA style.

• ENSTA’s colour codes

Colour Name	Hex Code	RGB Code
White	#FFFFFF	(255, 255, 255)
Black	#000000	(0, 0, 0)
ENSTA Dark blue	#170F39	(23, 15, 57)
Ensta Blue	#3A46F5	(58, 70, 245)
Ensta Orange	#EF878D	(239, 135, 141)
Ensta Green	#3E8066	(62, 128, 102)
Ensta Cyan	#3B7698	(59, 118, 152)
Ensta Indigo	#5A5AAE	(90, 90, 174)
Ensta Purple	#9F5EAF	(159, 94, 175)
Ensta Pink	#E688F8	(230, 136, 248)

  Figures editing

Miscellaneous

• Scientific drawing with inkscape monthly letter here.
• Good practices regarding figure formating
  • Colour science (Crameri, Shephard, and Heron 2020) and colour map choices
  • 10 rules for better figures in scientific writting (Rougier, Droettboom, and Bourne 2014)
  • Nice tool for plotting data in latex: PGFplot

References

Crameri, Fabio, Grace E. Shephard, and Philip J. Heron. 2020. “The Misuse of Colour in Science Communication.” Nature Communications 11 (1): 5444. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19160-7.

Rougier, Nicolas P., Michael Droettboom, and Philip E. Bourne. 2014. “Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures.” PLOS Computational Biology 10 (9): e1003833. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003833.