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I know that other groups do exactly that, but I'm not sure if there are some issues with this approach.

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I am definitely in favour of putting the content of the paper into a different file from all the boilerplate. Personally I prefer to keep all sections in one file though, mostly because I'm used to it and I can jump to section as easily as jumping to file in my editor. Also sometimes I want to make a nice transition from one section to another which is slightly easier when viewing both in the same file. But I suppose it's easy enough to decide this per-project!

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I would agree that it might make sense to put the boilerplate into a separate file. With respect to factoring out subsections into separate files, that is a subjective choice. I personally like to keep everything in a single file, as I typically navigate by searching to the term that I am interested in. That works best for me if everything is in a single file. I know that @goens likes to have multiple files and other groups indeed split papers up. I guess you do not use use search to navigate to a section or have an editor that supports folding?

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I am happy to arrange a brainstorming how we can improve this template given that the deadline is now over.

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I moved some of the builerplate into separate .tex files. See #33. Does that seem like a step into the right direction?

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To me, this makes a lot of sense!
I prefer having the boilerplate extracted from the main file, rather than having a single file for each section.
Having a single file for each section makes it harder to quickly move in the code!

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That's certainly a step in the right direction. As the consensus seems to be that most people prefer one file for the entire text, I guess we can leave this as is after merging #33. I agree that adding files for each section can be done on a per-project basis, if anyone prefers that.

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