We've recently had a number of users get in touch to ask how to do certain things with Overleaf, to which our answer has begun: "Firstly, create a custom latexmkrc file in your project...". Given that this isn't the most intuitive part of LaTeX, and documentation on the web (and...
# $pdflatex = "latexdiff main.tex main2.tex > main-d.tex; pdflatex %O main-d"Now you can compile main.tex or main2.tex to typeset their actual content, not the differences between them. For more information, refer to the Overleaf article How to use latexmkrc with Overleaf. ...
This is the fifth video in a series of 21 byDr Vincent Knightof Cardiff University; it shows how to include tables in your LaTeX documents using thetabluarenvironment. Through a short example you'll see how to include rows and columns with horizontal and vertical dividers, and with different...
I’m pretty much a convert to Overleaf and delighted to be using it. After years of avoiding LaTeX this has done the job for me.
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This is a continuation of How to write a LaTeX class file and design your own CV (Part 1), going over more options for creating a CV, and using class files to do so. In the last post, we had 2 files created: cv.tex and my_cv.cls. The conten file, cv.tex, contained the...
This is the eighth video in a series of 21 byDr Vincent Knightof Cardiff University. Here we see how to add sections and subsections to your LaTeX documents, and how to refer to them using the \ref and \label commands. By using\labeland\refcommands, the references always point...
LaTeX uses a multi-pass typesetting process: data produced in one pass (compilation) is written out to file(s) and used as input for any subsequent pass(es) that may be required. The following video shows what happens every time you click the “Recompile” button in your Overleaf project...
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this video, Vince shows how to quickly write out matrices in LaTeX, using theamsmathpackage and the\pmatrix(for a matrix with curly brackets),\matrix(for a matrix with no brackets), and\vmatrix(used to denote the determinant of a matrix) commands. Here's the code for the final example...