things to align before releases

[adibender]

• piece-wise vs. piecewise -> piecewise
• all-cause not 'all cause'
• e.g., -> for example
• Don't use 'c.f., i.e., etc.' or other abbreviations
• american vs. British English -> AE
• use of "", '', etc. -> Double quotes with single inside when need ("foo 'x' bar" not 'foo "x" bar')
• use of italics -> New terminology not for emphasis
• follow-up vs. follow up -> "follow-up time" "time to follow up"
• survival function vs. survivor function -> "survival function"
• hazard rate vs. hazard function -> "hazard function"
• math in figure and table captions -> Ensure math mode used in captions
• colloquial use of "significant" -> don't use it
• \log vs. log, \exp vs. exp, etc. (also mention somewhere that \log means \ln) -> always use "\log" etc.
• capitalisation of section headers

[RaphaelS1]

A lot of this stuff is picked up by the editors. There's a form we fill in that tells them what conventions we want (e.g., BE vs AE), they won't be able to pick-up maths stuff (e.g., exp and log), 'significant', etc.

Let's discuss on Thurs, better to fix things ASAP

[RaphaelS1]

• \log means \ln in symbols/notation

[adibender]

table headers (maths ($X$) vs. code vs. text

[RaphaelS1]

Citation order. Within the book do we want to order citations by author last name or year (I prefer alphabetical and I think that's slightly more standard)

• Check all citations ordered by author last name

[adibender]

Citation order. Within the book do we want to order citations by author last name or year (I prefer alphabetical and I think that's slightly more standard)

Definitely by name

[RaphaelS1]

• Equation cross-referencing. e.g. "eq (1.1)" vs "(1.1)" vs "Equation 1.1" vs "Equation (1.1)"
• How many abbreviations to use throughout the book?
• How much background info do we want to add with examples? e.g., do we need to say what prednisone and prothrombin are?

[RaphaelS1]

Would it make sense to update n_tau, d_tau, R_tau to n(tau), d(tau), R(tau) ?

[adibender]

Capitalization of abbreviations.
Currently lower case for pdf, cdf, but upper case in most other cases. I'd prefer upper case always. Lower case is not immediately recognisable as abbreviation.