Rewrote abstract, better organization in publishing section

I hadn't updated the abstract since first writing it. With this commit, it
has been updated to be more precise and generically interesting, focusing
more on the principles and usability. I also greatly improved the section
on publishing the workflow.

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+Directory containing LaTeX-related files
+----------------------------------------
+
+Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Mohammad Akhlaghi <mohammad@akhlaghi.org>\
+See the end of the file for license conditions.
+
+This directory contains directories to various components the LaTeX part of
+the project. In a running project, it will contain the atleast the
+following sub-directories. Note that
+
+- The `src/` directory contains the LaTeX files that are loaded into
+  `paper.tex`. This includes the necessary preambles, the LaTeX source
+  files to build tables or figures (for example with TiKZ or PGFPlots), and
+  etc.  These files are under version-control and an integral part of the
+  project's source.
+
+- The `build/` directory contains all the built products (not source!) that
+  are created during the analysis and are necessary for building the
+  paper. This includes figures, plots, images, table source contents and
+  etc. Note that this directory is not under version control.
+
+- The `tikz/` directory is only relevant if some of the project's figures
+  are built with the LaTeX packages of TiKZ or PGFPlots. It points to the
+  directory containing the figures (in PDF) that were built by these tools.
+  Note that this directory is not under version control.
+
+The latter two directory and its contents are not under version control, so
+if you have just cloned the project or are viewing its contents on a
+browser, they don't exist. They will be created after the project is
+configured for the running system.
+
+When the full project is build from scratch (building the software,
+downloading necessary datasets, running the analysis and building the
+paper's PDF), the latter two directories will be symbolic links to special
+places under the Build directory.
+
+However, when the distributed tarball is used to only build the PDF paper
+(without doing any analysis), the latter two directories will not be
+symbolic links and will contain the necessary components for the paper to
+be built.
+
+
+
+
+
+### Copyright information
+
+This project is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
+Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+This project is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for
+more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
+with this project.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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