[Latex] How to use Latex - Overleaf

Introduction

A few weeks ago, one of my supervisors recommended I use overleaf for writing an essay. 

I have used the MS word program for decades, so it seemed too complicated and not worth it.

However, I like exploring new stuff, so I looked into it and admitted that it is an excellent tool for writing an essay, report, or dissertation. Here I summarise a straightforward trick on what to do with overleaf for beginners. 

 

몇 주 전에, 내 상사 중 한 명이 에세이를 쓸 때 오버리프를 사용할 것을 추천했다.
나는 수십 년 동안 MS 워드 프로그램을 사용해왔고, 너무 복잡하고 가치가 없어 보였다.
그러나, 나는 새로운 것을 탐구하는 것을 좋아하기 때문에, 나는 그것을 살펴보고 그것이 에세이, 보고서 또는 논문을 쓰기 위한 훌륭한 도구라는 것을 인정했다. 여기서 나는 초보자를 위해 오버리프로 무엇을 해야 하는지에 대한 간단한 트릭을 요약한다.

 

Overleaf is a free LaTex editing tool.

There are a few advantages that I found. 

1. Collaborative Teamwork: Distribute your work with a group of people without worrying about losing data. This is important when you work with various users for the same report. In overleaf, you can divide sections by sections, and those sections can be saved respectively. For instance, if there are four sections Introduction, Methodology, Result, and Conclusion, you can save them in different files, but overleaf will let you present them all in one report. Also, you can leave comments, so it would be perfect for collaborating with others. 

2. Wide range of Free Professional Templates: Overleaf provides you with a lot of free templates that you can use. Which will make your life so easy. You just have to replace whatever is in the desired format. 

3. Easy and quick tagging, captioning and more: You just have to tell them it is a figure, and then the program will number and name the figures, tables and so on for you to position them in your report. And it even gives you a list of them with the pages linked to each page. 

 

1. 협업 팀워크: 데이터 손실에 대한 걱정 없이 한 무리의 사람들과 작업을 분배하세요. 이것은 같은 보고서를 위해 다양한 사용자와 작업할 때 중요합니다. 오버리프에서는 섹션을 섹션별로 나눌 수 있으며, 해당 섹션은 각각 저장할 수 있습니다. 예를 들어, 소개, 방법론, 결과 및 결론에 네 개의 섹션이 있다면, 다른 파일에 저장할 수 있지만, overleaf를 통해 하나의 보고서에 모두 표시할 수 있습니다. 또한, 당신은 댓글을 남길 수 있으므로, 다른 사람들과 협력하기에 완벽할 것입니다.

2. 다양한 무료 전문 템플릿: Overleaf는 사용할 수 있는 많은 무료 템플릿을 제공합니다. 그건 네 삶을 아주 쉽게 만들 거야. 원하는 형식으로 무엇이든 교체하기만 하면 됩니다.

3. 쉽고 빠른 태깅, 자막 등: 당신은 그들에게 그것이 수치라고 말해야 하며, 그러면 프로그램은 당신이 보고서에 배치할 수 있도록 수치, 표 등에 번호를 매기고 이름을 지정할 것입니다. 그리고 그것은 심지어 당신에게 각 페이지에 링크된 페이지와 함께 그들의 목록을 제공합니다.

 

Few Examples 

If you are already familiar with HTML or Markup, then it will be easy-peasy! Here I prepare the structure I used for my latest report. Everything is straightforward as long as you can read what it means. 

• "main.tex": the main page where present the entire report. 
• "src/abstract.tex": I have made a separate abstract file as I didn't want to include it in the word count. 
• ***Another cool function here is that the overleaf gives you a valid word count. (Excluding the functional ones)
• "src/acronym.tex": I made this to store all the acronyms. 
• "src/setting.tex": This includes all the setting codes, which is like setting up the page design, and size, and all the required packages are imported in this file too. 
• "src/titlepage.tex": This includes the title page format, as it doesn't align with the main body structure. 
• "reference.tex": If you input all the reference info here, you can cite it from the main report and it will appear at the end of the report as a reference list. 
• "appendix/appendixA.tex": This includes all the appendix files that I imported. 
• "img": This folder includes all the images or pdf files that I imported in the report. 

To use these separated files like "src/acronym.tex" or "src/setting.tex", just have to type "\input{src/setting}", which is in the second line of the above code. 

 

This is just a quite simple and straightforward tool to use. The detailed instruction may be uploaded soon or later.