The ability to have your simulation code automatically update the data and figures in the manuscript is hugely valuable. Another neat trick is a latex package

The ability to have your simulation code automatically update the data and figures in the manuscript is hugely valuable. Another neat trick is a latex package called Catchfilebetweentags. This let’s you have a text file with named data fields that you can insert into your document, like when you want to state a parameter that was used in a paragraph. Generating that text file as an artifact of the rest of the data processing means, e.g., that parameters my paper says I used are the ones that I actually used.