LaTeX Makes Me Angry
&gt; format the document source for legible reading. Yes, it&#x27;s the input to the typesetter, and yes, the output of the typesetter needs to be legible. But it&#x27;s worth making the input easy to read, too.<p>How is that difficult? Most text editors support word wrapping and syntax highlighting.<p>&gt; avoid rebuilding your rendered document too often. It&#x27;s slow, it takes you out of the activity of writing, and it throws up lots of opportunities to get distracted by some rendering nit that you didn&#x27;t realise would happen.<p>I wrote a 300+ page PhD thesis with a lot of mathematical proofs, 12+ years ago on a computer that was a few years old.  It wasn&#x27;t that slow.<p>But then again, the whole point of using something like LaTeX is that you can focus on the text and not how it looks when writing it.<p>&gt; If you use syntax highlighting in your editor, take a long, hard look at what it&#x27;s drawing attention to. It&#x27;s not your text, that&#x27;s for sure. Is it worth having it on? Consider turning it off. Or (yak shaving beware!) tweak it to de-emphasise things, instead of emphasising them.<p>Again, I never found this to be a problem, even with documents that were full of mathematical expressions.