6/23/2023 0 Comments Jabref force capitalizationAn expanded chapter English Usage includes new sections on Zombie Nouns Double Negatives Serial, or Oxford, Comma and Split Infinitives.Sidebars in gray boxes give brief diversions on topics related to the text, including several on “Publication Peculiarities”.The book uses color for syntax highlighted listings and examples of slides. The chapter Writing a Talk now illustrates the use of the Beamer package.I am now a convert to minimizing the use of rules and to using the booktabs package, as explained in this blog post. Since the second edition I have changed my mind about how to typeset tables.This is my best index yet, and the indexing chapter explains pretty much everything I’ve learned abut the topic. Indexing is an interesting task, but most of us do it only occasionally so it is hard to become proficient. I wrote a new chapter on indexing at the same time as I was reading the literature on indexing and making an improved index for the book.This results in more concise lists that make better use of the page, as explained in this blog post. I used the enumitem package to format all numbered and bulleted lists.The chapter on has been greatly expanded, reflecting both the many new and useful packages and my improved knowledge of typesetting.With the increased role of computers in writing and the volume of digital material we produce it is important that we make efficient use of text editors, markup languages, tools for manipulating plain text, spellcheckers, version control, and much more. A new chapter Workflow discusses how to organize and automate the many tasks involved in writing.Here are some of the more notable changes. I also added a substantial amount of new material. I removed the 20-page appendix Winners of Prizes for Expository Writing, since the contents can now be found on the web, and likewise for the appendix listing addresses of mathematical organizations. For example, nowadays there is no need to talk about submitting a hard copy manuscript, or one not written in LaTeX, to a publisher. I removed content that was outdated or is now unnecessary. I also improved the design and formatting and checked and updated all the references. I reorganized the material in a way that is more logical and makes the book easier to use for reference. I made a variety of improvements for the third edition. I’ve also learned a lot more about writing over the last twenty years. Parts of the second edition were becoming out of date, as they didn’t reflect recent developments in publishing (open access publishing, DOIs, ORCID, etc.) or workflow (including modern LaTeX packages, version control, and markup languages). A number of publishers cite the book as a reference for recommended style-see, for example, the AMS Author Handbook, the SIAM Style Manual and, outside mathematics and computing, the Chicago Manual of Style. As well as being used by individuals from students to faculty, it is a course text on transferable skills modules in many mathematics departments. It is SIAM’s fourth best selling book of all time if sales for the first edition (1993) and second edition (1998) are combined, and it is in my top ten most cited outputs. The third edition of Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences was published by SIAM in January 2020.
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