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- I find the kaobook class very nice and complete, and the layout seems to open up a lot of options for integrating a lot of visual information, supplementary texts, etc. Has anyone used it, liked it, any other comments or alternatives?
Yes. I've written a couple of books and having it all in one place just gets to be too much stuff. Here is a sketch of my current layout (exact is at https://gitlab.com/jim.hefferon/toc ), which I've had good luck with.
Templates If you have a specific template or a document class, e.g. memoire, you should start using it from the beginning. If you have decided on that, I'd recommend to read a manual on how to set it up correctly. Otherwise, I would just start from a default latex settings. Make sure you don't make too many local adjustments such as negative/positive horizontal/vertical spaces, local font settings, per equation/table, colours etc. They should be sorted globally via latex commands or custom macros; you should think of macros and environments for repeated contents. Tables are particularly important. You could think of any package which gives you a form of template so your tables follow a similar style; if packages such as tabularray are too much, at least use booktabs; anything that can set a theme, which you can repeat and change only in one place, will be huge advantage, should you have to make adjustments. It's similar with TikZ for drawings and tcolorbox for custom frames. In general, think globally and avoid local settings as much as you can.