Or how to learn basic LaTeX with Overleaf in 30 minutes.
Next use the option to "Log in through your institution" to login using your KAUST credentials
Before learning more about Latex, it can be helpful to have an understanding of a Latex document structure. For example, all packages go in the preamble that will discuss in more details later.
Once you login, you can create a new blank project
Notice that there are several options of templates, including the official KAUST templates for thesis and dissertation template. There are options for letters, books, CV/Resume, and others.
We will start with the blank template, and we will add content to our article.
After choosing the blank template, Overleaf will ask for a name for your project. You can give any meaninful name, like my first article. And your new article should looks like the following picture
Try to compile the text, and have a look at the PDF file.
Everything that comes before the \begin{document} is the preamble. The preamble starts by defining what kind of document we are doing, via the documentclass clause. There are several kinds of document: article, book, letter, etc. It's also possible to define the paper size of the document. The default is US letter, but it's possible to change to A4 paper size, among others.
Try to change the paper size to A4
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}You can go one step further, and add font size, like 11pt or 12pt
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}Next comes the list of packages that the text will use. In this case we are defining only the encoding, and utf8 is the recommended. Unless you have a very specific need, don't remove the line.
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} % !! Don't touch this line !!Next comes the title, the author(s) and the date. There isn't much to write about the title, but the others deserver some attention.
How to add a second (or third author)? One could simply list the authors like
\author{Athos, Aramis, and Porthos}It will work, but a better approach is to use the \and clause
\author{Athos \and Aramis \and Porthos}To add authors affiliation, first add the package to your preamble
\usepackage{authblk}Then edit the authors with their affiliation
\author[1]{Athos}
\author[2]{Aramis}
\author[1,2]{Porthos}
\affil[1]{Alexandre Dumas School of Literature}
\affil[2]{Musketeers Institute of Classical Studies}Try for yourself by compiling the text.
If don't include the \date, the document will have the date of the compilation, or you can set the date. Finally, if you want to remove the date completely, set an empty date
\date{} % For no date
\date{1st January 2000}
\date{\today} % To explicity set to the date of compilation.LaTeX offers several levels of section, although, two of them will be available for books and reports only, and they are part and chapter.
% \part{Part of book or report}
% \chapter{Chapter in a book or report}
\section{My section}
\subsection{My subsection}
\subsubsection{My subsubsection}
\paragraph{My paragraph}
\subparagraph{My subparagraph}Note that you can label a section (like equations, tables, and figures), and reference it later
\subsection{A Very Important Section} \label{S:very_important}
This section has some very important results. In this section we find the answer to the ultimate question of life and more.
\subsection{A Section}
Using the results from Sec.~(\ref{S:very_important}) we now can say for sure that the number ``42'' is the answer for ultimate questions of life, universe, and everything.To emphasize text in LaTeX use the formatting commands: \textbf{...}, \textit{...}, and \underline{...}. Add the following text to your article
\section{Text Formatting}
This text is in \textbf{bold}, and this is in \textit{italic}, and this one has \underline{underline.}A general example of the fonts available in LaTex is
\begin{tabular}{l p{0.6\linewidth} }
\textbf{Specifier} & \textbf{Switches To}\\ \hline
\verb|\textnormal{}| & normal document text\\
\verb|\emph{}| & \emph{emphasis}\\
\verb|\texttt{}| & \texttt{Typewriter style font family}\\
\verb|\textit{}| & \textit{italic text}\\
\verb|\textbf{}| & \textbf{bold text}\\
\verb|\textrm{}| & \textrm{Roman font family}\\
\verb|\textsf{}| & \textsf{Sans-serif font family}\\
\end{tabular}This table will produce a output similar to this
Try to put emphasis on text that is already emphasized.
\emph{This text is emphasized, and \emph{we put emphasis inside} a block that is already emphasized!}LaTeX has 3 kinds of lists: bullet, numbered and description. A list is defined as parameter for the environment \begin and \end. Let's start by creating a section for our lists
%
% Add a section for lists in your document.
\section{Lists}
\LaTeX{} has the basic types of lists: bullet and enumerate. They are also known as ``unordered'' or ``ordered''. We will add these two types of list, then we mix them. We finish adding another type of list: description list.Now add all three kinds of list to your document.
A unordered list:
\begin{itemize}
\item This is the first item on a bullet list.
\item This the second item.
\end{itemize}
And an ordered list:
\begin{enumerate}
\item First item in an enumerate list.
\item And the second item.
\end{enumerate}
Of course you can combine the two types:
\begin{enumerate}
\item The ingredients
\begin{itemize}
\item Eggs
\item Milk
\item Flour
\end{itemize}
\item Mix all ingredients in a bowl
\item Put in the oven.
\item After 30 minutes, remove the cake from the oven.
\item Enjoy it.
\end{enumerate}To finish, the description list
Now we present the ``description'' list:
\begin{description}
\item[The Red Sea] is a small body of water.
\item[The Red Sea] also has extensive shallow shelves, noted for their marine life and corals. The sea is the habitat of over 1,000 invertebrate species and 200 types of soft and hard coral. It is the world's northernmost tropical sea, and has been designated a Global 200 ecoregion.
\end{description}Lists have a lots of options, like changing the bullet or numbering style.
To type a piece of code, like Python, on your text, you can use the fancyvrb package(pdf).
First add the package to your preamble as usual
\usepackage{fancyvrb} % Add the packageThen add the piece of code to your LaTeX document:
\section{Computer Code}
Adding computer code to your text
% The parameters are optional for the font size and family, and add line numbers
% on the left side, and frame above and below the code.
\begin{Verbatim}[fontsize=\small, fontfamily=courier, numbers=left, frame=lines]
from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def home():
return 'Flask with docker!'
\end{Verbatim}When working on big documents, that is, a large projects, you might want to split the input file into several parts. LaTeX offers two ways to include files: input and include. The difference is subtle.
The input command simply will insert the external file just like if you have typed, and you can have nested input files, that is, an input inside another inputed file. The syntax is:
input{filename}The syntax for the include command is very similar
include{filename}As discussed in the difference between the commands, the content of include will start in a new page, if this behaviour is not desireable, then one must use the input command instead. But on the other hand, include can be used with includeonly with can be handy in really big projects, because, as the name suggests, will include only selected files into the main document.
To use includeonly, add it to the preamble of the document
includeonly{filename1, filename2, ...}and only those files will be included in the main document.
To add images to a LaTeX document in Overleaf, it's necessary to upload them first. It's recommended to create a folder for the images so they are separated from the regular documents.
Give a name to your folder, something like img, or images, or pictures.
Next upload the picture
Add the package graphics to the preamble, and set the path to the images, although this not strictly necessary because Overleaf will suggest the full path to the picture.
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{ {img/} }add the picture to the document
\section{Images}
Now we are going to add pictures to the document
\includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{bombetoka_aster_23aug00_lrg.jpg}Here we also set the width of the picture to be 60% of the text width. There are many ways of setting the size of a picture, like with parameter scale or explicitly with width and height. For example,
\includegraphics[scale=0.1]{bombetoka_aster_23aug00_lrg.jpg} % 10% original size.
\includegraphics[width=5cm, height=4cm]{bombetoka_aster_23aug00_lrg.jpg} % setting size of pictureNow that we have picture in our document, we can add a caption, and a label. The label will allow us to reference the picture in the text.
We will set a environment for the picture so we can add the extra configuration
\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{bombetoka_aster_23aug00_lrg}
\caption{An Otherworldly-Looking Bombetoka Bay, Madagascar}
\label{fig:Bombetoka_Bay}
\end{figure}You cloned the Github repository, you can add the following to code to include 2 pictures
%
% Picture environment start
%
\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{bombetoka_aster_23aug00_lrg}
\caption{An Otherworldly-Looking Bombetoka Bay, Madagascar}
\label{fig:Bombetoka_Bay}
\end{figure}
% Picture environment end
In Fig.~(\ref{fig:Bombetoka_Bay}) we see a picture from a bay in Madagascar, where the salty waters of the Mozambique Channel penetrate inland to join with the freshwater outflow of the Betsiboka River, forming Bombetoka Bay.
Next we have another beautiful picture from somewhere in planet Earth. In the next picture will have a different number from the previous picture.
%
% Picture environment start
%
\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{Susquehanna_River.jpg}
\caption{The Susquehanna River}
\label{fig:Susquehanna_River}
\end{figure}
% Picture environment end
In Fig.~(\ref{fig:Susquehanna_River}) we see the Susquehanna River cutting through the folds of the Valley-and-Ridge province of the Appalachian Mountains in this photograph taken by the crew of the International Space Station.You reference your pictures using the command \ref{}, with the label that you defined inside the picture environment.
Try to swap the pictures see if the reference to the pictures changes.
The subfigure environment allows to build complex figures. First import the following packages
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
But adding the figures themselves are very similar to process above, just use the subfigure environment inside the figure, like this
We can combine pictures into ``one big picture'' using the \texttt{subfigure} environment. You can think as nesting pictures inside the \texttt{picture} environment. You can reference the ``big picture'' as the places of planet Earth in Pic~(\ref{fig:PlacesEarth}), or individual pictures, like the beautiful picture of Bombetoka Bay in Pic~(\ref{fig:pic_1}).
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.495\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=5cm, height=4cm]{bombetoka_aster_23aug00_lrg}
\caption{The Bombetoka Bay}
\label{fig:pic_1}
\end{subfigure}
\hfill
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.495\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=5cm, height=4cm]{Susquehanna_River.jpg}
\caption{The Susquehanna River}
\label{fig:pic_2}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{Pictures from the planet Earth}
\label{fig:PlacesEarth}
\end{figure}Adjusting the size of the subfigues will require some patience, but it's a nice way to combine related graphs.
Probably the strongest point of LaTeX is the typesetting of mathematics.
Add a new file to your project, and give it a name, something like equations.tex
Before starting to work with equations, add these 2 packages to your preamble
\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath}Note You can add packages one line per package, or add several packages in one line. This is a personal choice.
On the main document, main.tex, add the command to include the new file
%
% Include file. Just text, no preamble part, but we keep the heading ("section") here to make easier to read the main document.
\section{Equations}
\input{equations.tex}Now start adding text to equations.tex file
Here we present what is probably the strongest points of \LaTeX{}: mathematical typesetting.
\subsection{Simple Maths}
In this document we will add equations, and other mathematical stuff. We start with the \emph{inline} mode, where the equation is directly on the text.
The very famous Einstein's equation is $E = mc^2$, where $m$ is the mass of the object, and $c$ is the speed of light in the vacuum. You put something a little more interesting in the in line equation, like an integral: $\int \zeta^{2}(x) \, dx$, or a simple fraction: $\frac{1}{x + y}$. LaTeX has a second math environment, the displayed. As the name implies, it displays math, and it's better than the inline environment for bigger equations. You can use the displayed environment with the command displaymath:
Using the \emph{displaymath} environment
\begin{displaymath}
\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{-x^2} \, dx = \sqrt{\pi}
\end{displaymath}
The \emph{displaymath} environment is so common that it has a shortcut \verb|\[| and \verb|\]|. Using the shortcut to rewrite the equation above, we should get the same result
\[
\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{-x^2} \, dx = \sqrt{\pi}
\]Equations are just like the displayed environment above, with the exception that get a number associated with them. Equations are typed in the equation environment. Continuing with the example above, but using the equation environment we have
\begin{equation}
\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{-x^2} \, dx = \sqrt{\pi}
\end{equation}Equations have an extra feature that is very important: equations can be lableled, and referenced later. Just like figures. Let's see an example:
Consider the following equation
\begin{equation}
\int_{a}^{b} f(x) \: dx = F(a) - F(b)
\label{E:CalcFundemental}
\end{equation}
The Eq.~(\ref{E:CalcFundemental}) is known as \emph{Fundamental Theorem of Calculus}.With label can give a name to our equation, and reference it later with ref. Note that the E: in the label, is just a convention, and not required. The convention in naming is just to make life easier for the author: E for equation, T for table, F for figure, and so on. Note the \: sequence to increse the space between the f(x) and the dx.
Putting a box around your formula
\subsubsection{Boxed Formula}
The \verb|\boxed{}| commands put its argument in a box
\[
\boxed{\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{-x^2} \, dx = \sqrt{\pi}}
\]You can give a name instead to a formula, this way the name is shown instead of a number
\subsubsection{Tagging a Formula}
The \textsf{amsmath} allows to give a name to an equation with the \verb|\tag{}| command
\begin{equation}
F = G\frac{m_{1} m_{2}}{r^{2}}\tag{Newton}
\label{E:NewtonGrav}
\end{equation}
The Eq.~(\ref{E:NewtonGrav}) shows that we can reference a tagged equation. There are many options available when working with mathematics in LaTeX: mathematical expressions, brackets and parantheses, Greek letters and other math symbols, etc.
This section will deal with a common LaTeX problem of typesetting multiline math formula.
The gathering environment groups multiple one-line formulas, each centered in one line
\subsection{Gathering Formulas}
The \verb|gather| environment group several one-line formulas
\begin{gather}
x_{l} x_{2} + x_{1}~{2} x_{2}~{2} + x_{3},\label{E:mml.l}\\
x_{l} x_{3} + x_{1}~{2} x_{3}~{2} + x_{2},\label{E:mml.2}\\
x_{l} x_{2} x_{3}.\label{E:mml.3}
\end{gather}
Formulas (\ref{E:mml.l})-(\ref{E:mml.3}) are type as
\begin{verbatim}
\begin{gather}
x_{l} x_{2} + x_{1}~{2} x_{2}~{2} + x_{3},\label{E:mml.l}\\
x_{l} x_{3} + x_{1}~{2} x_{3}~{2} + x_{2},\label{E:mml.2}\\
x_{l} x_{2} x_{3}.\label{E:mml.3}
\end{gather}
\end{verbatim}If we want the group of equations to looks like more like of a single group like "Eq. (5)" for the whole group, and still be able to access individual equations, like "(5a)", then we can put the gather inside the subequations environment
A better result can achieved by putting the \verb|gather| inside the \verb|subequations| environment
\begin{verbatim}
\begin{subequations}\label{E:gp}
\begin{gather}
x_{l} x_{2} + x_{1}~{2} x_{2}~{2} + x_{3},\label{E:gpl}\\
x_{l} x_{3} + x_{1}~{2} x_{3}~{2} + x_{2},\label{E:gp2}\\
x_{l} x_{2} x_{3},\label{E:gp3}
\end{gather}
\end{subequations}
\end{verbatim}
Which produces the following output
\begin{subequations}\label{E:gp}
\begin{gather}
x_{l} x_{2} + x_{1}~{2} x_{2}~{2} + x_{3},\label{E:gpl}\\
x_{l} x_{3} + x_{1}~{2} x_{3}~{2} + x_{2},\label{E:gp2}\\
x_{l} x_{2} x_{3},\label{E:gp3}
\end{gather}
\end{subequations}
Then with \verb|\eqref{E:gp}| you can reference the whole group as (\ref{E:gp}), while with \verb|\eqref{E:gp1}| will reference an individual equation, like Eq.~(\ref{E:gpl}).In case presenting how to solve an equation, we would like to beautifuly displayed, like aligning at the equal sign. Or in case of long formulas, it can be necessary to split it in multiple lines. Make sure already have imported the package amsmath in your main document.
To split a long formula or equation, LaTeX offers basically two options: multline and split. The first options, multline is very basic, and if possible, you should use the split environment instead.
The biggest advantage of split is that outter mathematical environment understands the splitting assigning a single number for the multiline equation, and also understands the aligned character. To ilustrate these two points, consider the following examples
\subsection{Splitting Equations}
\LaTeX{} has a basic environment to split long formulas: \verb|multline|
\begin{multline}
(x_{1}x_{2}x_{3}x_{4}x_{5}x_{6})^{2}\\
+ (x_{1}x_{2}x_{3}x_{4}x_{5}\\
+ x_{1}x_{3}x_{4}x_{5}x_{6}\\
+ x_{1}x_{2}x_{4}x_{5}x_{6}\\
+ x_{1}x_{2}x_{3}x_{5}x_{6})^{2}
\end{multline}
Note that the first line is set flush left, and the last one is set flush to right, and ones in the middle are centered.
The \verb|split| math environment is to split a (long) formula into aligned parts. There are two major reasons to use split:
\begin{itemize}
\item The math environment that contain it considers the \verb|split| environment to be a single equation, so it generates only one number for it.
\item If the \verb|split| environment appears inside an \verb|align| environment, the alignment point of the \verb|split| environment is recognized by \verb|align| as is used in aligning all the formulas in the \verb|align| environement.
\end{itemize}
Consider the equation, despite the multiple lines, it's a single equation (point 1)
\begin{equation}\label{E:mm7}
\begin{split}
(x_{1}x_{2}&x_{3}x_{4}x_{5}x_{6})^{2}\\
&+ (x_{1}x_{2}x_{3}x_{4}x_{5}\\
&+ x_{1}x_{3}x_{4}x_{5}x_{6}\\
&+ x_{1}x_{2}x_{4}x_{5}x_{6}\\
&+ x_{1}x_{2}x_{3}x_{5}x_{6})^{2}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
To illustrate the second point, here is an example of \verb|split| within an \verb|align| environment. The \verb|align| understands the align character inside the \verb|split|
\begin{align}\label{E:mm}
\begin{split}
f &= (x_{1}x_{2}x_{3}x_{4}x_{5}x_{6})^{2}\\
&= (x_{1}x_{2}x_{3}x_{4}x_{5}
+ x_{1}x_{3}x_{4}x_{5}x_{6}
+ x_{1}x_{2}x_{4}x_{5}x_{6}
+ x_{1}x_{2}x_{3}x_{5}x_{6})^{2}
\end{split}\\
g &= y_{1} y_{2} y_{3}
\end{align}Matrices in LaTeX are provided by the amsmath package. By default, there are no delimiter to the matrix, like parenthesis. The diferent delimiters are diferent matrix commands, like pmatrix or vmatrix.
\subsection{Matrices}
The \textsf{amsmath} package provides the \verb|matrix| environment. The \verb|matrix| is a subsidiary environment, that means, it needs to be inside other mathematical environment, like \verb|equation| or \verb|displaymath|.
\begin{displaymath}
\begin{matrix}
1 & 2 & 3\\
a & b & c
\end{matrix}
\end{displaymath}
Note that there are no parentheses, to have parentheses, use the \verb|pmatrix| instead. Here is a more complete example
\begin{displaymath}
\mathbf{A} =
\begin{pmatrix}
a + b + c & uv\\
a + b & u + v
\end{pmatrix}
\begin{pmatrix}
30 & 7\\
3 & 17
\end{pmatrix}
\end{displaymath}
Besides \verb|matrix|, \verb|pmatrix|, the other matrices environment include \verb|bmatrix|, \verb|Bmatrix|, \verb|vmatrix|, and \verb|Vmatrix|. As last example, we look at cases another amsmath subsidiary environment
\subsection{Cases}
Cases, like matrices, are also a subsidiary environment, that is, it has to be inside another mathematical environment. An example of \verb|cases| would be something like
\begin{displaymath}
f(x)=
\begin{cases}
-x^{2}, &\text{if $x < 0$;}\\
\alpha + x, &\text{if $0 \leq x \leq 1$;}\\
x^{2}, &\text{otherwise.}
\end{cases}
\end{displaymath}Typing a big formula requires some planing, and we will show how to type one using one example.
For the next example, add a new file, like we did for the equations.tex. If cloned the Github repository, you will find the file in the same folder as above, examples. If you not using the repository, you can still copy the content of file using the option Raw on Github.
In equations.tex file add the following line, and compile your document.
\input{big_formula}This is the last step using the equation.tex. Now we will continue with our main document, main.tex.
Table in LaTeX are provided by the tabular environment. The general format of the is
\begin{tabular}[pos]{ table spec }The table spec are the number of columns, and the alignment of the text: l for left, c for center, and r for right. The pos is vertical position of the table relative to the baseline of the surrounding text. The options are: t for top, b, and c for center, but you hardly will use pos parameters.
\section{Tables}
Creating a simple table in \LaTeX{} with 3 columns centered
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{ c c c }
cell1 & cell2 & cell3 \\
cell4 & cell5 & cell6 \\
cell7 & cell8 & cell9
\end{tabular}
\end{center}Next we will add borders to the table. To add boder at the columns, change the table spec to \begin{tabular}{ c | c | c }. Horizontal lines with hline. Add border to previous table
Adding border to the table~\ref{T:tab1}, and putting the table inside a proper ``table'' environment
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{| c | c | c |}
\hline
\textbf{Col 1}& \textbf{Col 2} & \textbf{Col 3} \\ \hline
cell1 & cell2 & cell3 \\ \hline
cell4 & cell5 & cell6 \\ \hline
cell7 & cell8 & cell9 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table with lines}
\label{T:tab1}
\end{table}Below is an example of a table with partial lines using cline
Within a tabular environment, \verb|&| jumps to the next column, \verb|\\| starts a new line and \verb|\hline| inserts a horizontal line. Add partial lines by using \verb|\cline{i-j}|, where $i$ and $j$ are the column numbers the line should extend over. See Tab.~(\ref{T:part_lines}).
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|r|l|}
\hline
7C0 & hexadecimal \\
3700 & octal \\ \cline{2-2}
11111000000 & binary \\
\hline \hline
1984 & decimal \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table with partial lines}
\label{T:part_lines}
\end{table}Next we consider a table with text. Try the following example
What about tables with text? Do they need any change or not? Let's see what happen when we try a naive approach
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c|l}
t & Place the table at the \emph{top} of a text page\\
! & Used in addition to the other parameters, it overrides the restrictions of LaTeX over the floats (such as the maximum number of floats on a page) and helps to enforce the chosen parameter\\
\end{tabular}
\caption{Table with very wide column}
\label{T:col_too_wide}
\end{table}We can see that simply putting text on the table didn't work. So how fix this? The solution is to use a different type of column that are able to wrap the text. Here we use the p{width} option that aligh the text at the top of the cell.
The possible options for the placement are presented on the following table. Note we are setting the size of the column with text
On Tab~.(\ref{T:PosPlace}) are placement options for the floating environment (like pictures and tables) in \LaTeX{}.
\begin{table}[ht]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{c p{0.6\linewidth} }
\textbf{Specifier} & \textbf{Placement}\\ \hline
t & Place the table at the \emph{top} of a text page\\
b & Place the table at the \emph{bottom} of a text page\\
h & Place the table at the position in the text where the table environment is that is, \emph{here}\\
p & Place the table on a separate float page\\
! & Used in addition to the other parameters, it overrides the restrictions of LaTeX over the floats (such as the maximum number of floats on a page) and helps to enforce the chosen parameter\\
H & Comes with the ``float'' package, it absolutely forces the table to appear at the position in the text where the table environment is
\end{tabular}
\caption{Possible placement options for floating environment}
\label{T:PosPlace}
\end{table}Overleaf has a very good introduction to bibliography in LaTeX, so here will limit ourselves to a simple introduction.
- Import the
biblatexpackage - Specify the file with the bibliography entries
- Add the command
\printbibliography
On our LaTeX document add the biblatex package with some options and the file with the references to the preamble, here the refences file is called learn_latex.bib
% In the preamble
\usepackage[
backend=biber,
style=alphabetic,
sorting=ynt
]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{article_bib.bib}With the alphabetic style, the bibliography will appear as [Grä04], but if we change the style to numeric, the bibliography will appear as [1]. There are many other customized styles, like Nature, Science, IEEE, etc.
Create the new file article_bib.bib to your project. In that file, add your references
@book{mil2004,
title = {Math Into \LaTeX},
author = {George Gr\"atzer},
isbn = {978-0-8176-4131-3},
year = {2004},
publisher = {Birkh\"auser},
keywords = {Science}
}
@online{mil1996,
title = {Math Into \LaTeX{}, an introduction to LaTeX and AMS-LaTeX},
author = {George Gr\"atzer},
year = {1996},
publisher = {Birkh\"auser},
url = {"https://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/info/mil/mil.pdf"},
keywords = {Computerized typesetting}
}
@online{oet2021,
title = {The Not So Short Introduction to \LaTeX{}$\epsilon$},
author = {Tobias Oetiker and Hubert Partl and Irene Hyna and Elisabeth Schlegl},
year = {2001},
url = {"https://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf"},
keywords = {Computerized typesetting},
}On your document, cite the references
\section{References}
The most important book for this training was \cite{mil2004}, which is really a deep dive into mathematics in \LaTeX{}. I can't recommend this book enough. Next is a booklet of the same book, \cite{mil1996}, which is a good sample of the main book. A gentle short introduction to \LaTeX{} is \cite{oet2021}. Finally, add the command to print the references
\printbibliographyThe entries for your bibliography can be of several kinds, like articles, books, thesis, online, and much more. We suggest to put as much as information as possible from the list of available fields, but keep in mind that the final bibliography will depend on the bibliography style.
The closing of this training is with two items: table of contents and abstract.
To create a table of contents is very simple, just add the command at the place you want to create your table of contents. In general it will after the command maketitle
%
% Add where the table of contents should be placed.
%
\tableofcontentsYou can also add list of figures and tables.
Finally the abstract, as a good practice is the last thing we write. The abstract has it's own environment. Adding an abstract to our article.
\begin{abstract}
In this brief \LaTeX{} training we covered a lot. We presented the basic elements of an article, lists, tables, equations, etc. On the Github page, we added references to Overleaf documentation so you can explore more in depth material. Finally, \LaTeX{} is a very well established, so you will have no problem finding how to do all sorts of things. As Alan Kay said ``Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.'' That is definitely true for Overleaf and \LaTeX{}.
\end{abstract}