It is common to see a nasty typograph and layout on an amateur paperwork. Amateurs tend to think that they can do everything, from the content, layout, typograph, even the colour and illustration. I remember when an owner of a software enterprise which was doing project in a state ministerial office insisted to put his own logo design as an opening/welcome screen of the official website of the minister office, my friend commented "Garuda Terbakar/Burned Garuda". The logo was Garuda Pancasila with red background. These smart ass actions became common when WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Guess) editing tools are widely available. Everybody thinks to be a designer; typographer and layouter. Everybody think that design is simple matter.
Go back to writing paper work. Actually for someone who doesn't know about design matter it would be better to follow given styles or template, no need to be creative, or the result will be a nasty annoying work that can make the reader/audience's eyes turn red.
My suggestion as fellow amateur:
A. Presentation and Blog:
1. Use template
2. Don't do any significant 'creative' vandalism on the template
B. Paper report
1. Use template
2. Use LaTEX, anyhow this tool is still the best typesetting tool, you can compare which one is better among springer published books, Pearson, Prentice-hall and so on. And take a look what is the system they used for typesetting. Hail Donald E. Knuth!
Sample of nice template for report available on springer's site. There are available on several mainstream editor file format.
Little tutorial on llncs using LaTEX:
1. get llncs.cls.tex, it is a class file
2. get typeinst.zip, it contains sample file of llncs class. You can read the .tex file inside to learn llncs usage.
Go back to writing paper work. Actually for someone who doesn't know about design matter it would be better to follow given styles or template, no need to be creative, or the result will be a nasty annoying work that can make the reader/audience's eyes turn red.
My suggestion as fellow amateur:
A. Presentation and Blog:
1. Use template
2. Don't do any significant 'creative' vandalism on the template
B. Paper report
1. Use template
2. Use LaTEX, anyhow this tool is still the best typesetting tool, you can compare which one is better among springer published books, Pearson, Prentice-hall and so on. And take a look what is the system they used for typesetting. Hail Donald E. Knuth!
Sample of nice template for report available on springer's site. There are available on several mainstream editor file format.
Little tutorial on llncs using LaTEX:
1. get llncs.cls.tex, it is a class file
2. get typeinst.zip, it contains sample file of llncs class. You can read the .tex file inside to learn llncs usage.
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