Appendix E
Production Notes
There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.
— Mark Twain
This book was written in LaTeX by the two of us in three different countries (Ireland, Spain, and Switzerland) and in a wide variety of places: in offices at Maynooth University, the University of Oviedo and CERN; in an apartment in Oviedo, a university dorm in Maynooth, and an apartment in Geneva; in a sports pavilion; in the waiting rooms of emergency departments of two different hospitals; near the beach; near the mountains; on the backseat of a car; on some commuter trains; at several different airports; at a hotel in Almería; and, probably, in some other locations that we do not remember now.
All this wouldn’t have been possible without adequate tools and apps. The main one was Overleaf (https://www.overleaf.com), which allowed us to collaborate and work simultaneously even while we were thousands of kilometers away from each other.
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