\section[Habits]{A checklist of good literate habits}

[Suggestions welcome.  Haven't worked on this in a while.]

\begin{itemize}
\item
Express your ideas in a way amenable to plain ASCII representation, as
well as that of full-blown \TeX{} typesetting.  For example, serious
\TeX{} math-mode stuff is not really on (even if you can get it past
\tr{lit2latex}).  If you find this constraint a big problem, you may
well be using the wrong tool for the job.

\item
If you test your document first as an Info file (i.e., use
\tr{lit2texi} to process it), once that is right then it is very
likely that the \LaTeX{} side of things (using \tr{lit2latex}) will
come out right as well.  The reverse is not true.

\item
Follow the convention that the sectioning in every file begins with a
\tr{\section}.  For details on how to do sectioning, please see
\sectionref{How_to_section}.

\item
Arrange your document so that your Info nodes come out no more than
two screenfuls' long.  Very long nodes obviate the whole point of Info
documents.

\item
It's hard to make up good sets of Info node names.  First, they must
be unique!  Second, it's best if the uniqueness is in the first few
characters, so that nodename completion may be used to most advantage.

\end{itemize}