dcs-training / latexandoverleaf

Write and format your thesis with LaTeX and Overleaf

This was a course aimed to give an introductory overview of how to write and format your thesis, or any other piece of written work, with LaTeX and Overleaf. This training provided an introduction on the potentialities of LaTeX.
The training was subdivided in 3 sessions of 90 mins The material was developped by Lucia Michielin

Topics discussed

• What is LaTeX? And what is Overleaf?
• Why using them?
• Writing your first piece of LaTeX
• The preamble of a document
• Adding a title, author and date
• Bold, italics and underlining
• Adding images
• Captions, labels and references
• Creating lists in LaTeX
• Adding Footnotes
• Basic Formatting
• Adding Code and importing R tables
• Abstracts
• Paragraphs and newlines
• Chapters and Sections
• Creating tables
• Adding a Table of Contents
• Bibliographies with BibLaTeX
• Colaboratively working with Overleaf

What you are going to find in this repo

• .ppt presentations used during the course
• commented LaTeX code example

To open the project you shall download the .zip file, create and Overleaf account, new project-import project, drag and drop the zipped file

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