Your thesis could be the longest and most complicated document you'll ever write, which is why it's such a good idea to useLaTeXinstead of a common word processor.LaTeXmakes tasks that are difficult and awkward in word processors, far simpler. ...
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 to the ...
Projectswithoutan editable.bibfile: When you first cite a reference contained in a linked reference manager, including Mendeley, Overleaf will create a.bibfile calledreferences.bib. You’ll see that file name used in the notification message displayed each time a new reference is added to it. ...
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...
This is the 12th video in a series of 21 byDr Vincent Knightof Cardiff University. In LaTeX we can label equations for easy reference within the article. Here we see how to create an equation using the\begin{equation}and\end{equation}commands. This equation is automatically numbered, and by...
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 ...
Also note that there are tens of journal article templates, books, theses, etc on the Overleaf site. As in this article, we would like to focus on the basic matter, start with the journal article template. When you do so, you will see a screen, that...
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...
Why the interest in latexmkrc? 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, ...
Why the interest in latexmkrc? 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, ...