The author's layout looks pretty normal to me (aside from it not being in LaTeX). For reference, here's a good math paper by Noam Elkies with fairly standard la

The author's layout looks pretty normal to me (aside from it not being in LaTeX). For reference, here's a good math paper by Noam Elkies with fairly standard layout: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.07541.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.07541.pdf