For layout, I just used the default setting of Latex (ah, the beauty of typing maths). It's default settings are specifically done to make the maths readable. I change the font size to 10 or 12 depending on how much material there is (no point in cramming it in for a medium length project) but leave margin sizes and line spacing alone.
One problem is that Latex by default doesn't have a spell checker, so have to go through it with a fine toothcomb afterwards.
I'm typing up the beginnings of my 4th year coursework now and found that rather than put in a page of tedious derivation of a rather standard result, it's better to put a (*) next to the result and then point the reader to the appendix where the result is done. Tends to prevent breaking the flow of the paper (and I readily admit I nicked this idea from various maths papers I've read).
Though it seems the majority of you are humanities (or at least non-science) should any of you be science students and haven't heard of Latex (it's pronounced Lay-tek) I highly recommend it. Aside from being able to do about any maths symbol under the sun and flash stuff like Feynman diagrams it's go so many built in layout functions (auto-makes a contents page, a list of tables and figures etc) it makes projects infinitely easier and better presented than Word. I'd never ever consider doing any kind of writeup in Word now.
One problem is that Latex by default doesn't have a spell checker, so have to go through it with a fine toothcomb afterwards.
I'm typing up the beginnings of my 4th year coursework now and found that rather than put in a page of tedious derivation of a rather standard result, it's better to put a (*) next to the result and then point the reader to the appendix where the result is done. Tends to prevent breaking the flow of the paper (and I readily admit I nicked this idea from various maths papers I've read).
Though it seems the majority of you are humanities (or at least non-science) should any of you be science students and haven't heard of Latex (it's pronounced Lay-tek) I highly recommend it. Aside from being able to do about any maths symbol under the sun and flash stuff like Feynman diagrams it's go so many built in layout functions (auto-makes a contents page, a list of tables and figures etc) it makes projects infinitely easier and better presented than Word. I'd never ever consider doing any kind of writeup in Word now.
