Overleaf Introduction
The purpose of this webpage is to provide you with some basic information to successfully start using LaTeX. A step-by-step guide to using Overleaf can be found below:
- Create an account at https://www.overleaf.com/.
- Click the NEW PROJECT button in the top left-hand corner and then select the BLANK PROJECT option from the drop-down menu.
- Name your project and click the CREATE button.
- By default, Overleaf will provide you with a preamble (the section before the
\begin{document}command) and first section. We recommend that you delete this, and start fresh with the preamble on the back of this handout. - Next, go to a new line and type the command
\begin{document}. Overleaf will autofill the environment if you press the TAB key.
Place the text of your document between the \begin{document} and \end{document} commands.
Helpful Links
Below are some helpful links to get started with LaTeX.
- Basic Information: https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes
- Math in LaTeX: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics
- A Tool for Finding Symbols: https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
- For Everything Else: https://www.google.com/