Motivation

LaTeX and Overleaf are super useful tools for academic writing but the learning curve can be pretty steep! Let’s run through an intro to these tools to get you started.

Workshop skeleton

  • Intro
    • What is LaTeX?
    • What is Overleaf?
  • Anatomy of a LaTeX project
    • Structure: main.tex, files, …
    • Preamble
    • \maketitle: title, authors, date
    • Sections and paragraphs
    • Figures and tables
    • Table of contents
    • Comments
    • Managing your references
  • Okay, it seems like a faff now … what are the cool things LaTeX + Overleaf can do?
    • Templates
      • preparing for journal submission
    • Thesis-writing
    • Collaboration with Overleaf
      • synchronous editing, commenting, reviewing
    • Maths formatting
    • Version control with Git/GitHub
    • Automation: updating figures, styles, …
    • Embed R code with knitr
      • (For when you want an .Rmd that everyone can work on together)

Resources

A series of Overleaf help pages we’ll refer to: