Additional resources
General tips and tools
- The package microtype helps improving the rendering of long text easily
- Quarto is an open-source librairy that enables to create dynamic scientific documents, presentations, and websites using Markdown, LaTeX, and a variety of programming languages (including python, R, etc.).
- The html presentations can then be translated into pdfs using decktape.
- install node
brew install node - install decktape
npm install -g decktape reveal --size=1600x1000 presentation.html presentation.pdf
- install node
- The html presentations can then be translated into pdfs using decktape.
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.