This was super amazing and helpful to learn from! My advanced physics lab in Uni is making me use LaTeX for our Lab Reports and I've never used it before so I was banging my head against the wall trying to figure stuff out.
I learned everything within 1 hour, and already made a decent lab report using LaTex. They really should teach this in high school as an optional class for those who wanna pursue STEM.
Just FYI,...Not to be picky, but you mention to input a "Forward slash" in your tutorials, but it is actually a "BACKSLASH" (\) that is needed. This is on behalf of a friend who is legally blind and relies on what is said vs seen. Thanks. Great tutorial by the way and please keep it up. Thank you.
@@TaylorSparks Thank you and once again,...I love to watch your videos and tutorials. I have learned a lot from them and use that knowledge all the time. I also send my colleagues and friends this link as well. Thanks once again.
I tried to do an abstract with the same ruler-style design, but my lines didn't center themselves even after I applied some text. Do you know how can I fix that maybe?
Thank you so much am from north africa and you were so helpful :D Am actually writing my final study project report and I needed to know such things about latex and overleaf
I think the reason table captions are on top is that tables can be so long and can span several pages, you don't want to scroll all the way down to the bottom to see what the table is about
Hi Taylor, this was a great introduction. I'm planning to use LaTex for writing my bachelor's thesis and this confirmed my plan, since it looks quite easy. I was wondering if there's any way I could access the document you created in this tutorial to build on that and maybe make notes. Thanks in advance! Greetings from Germany :)
Hi Taylor, Thank for the tutorial. I learned alot. I have an extra question concerning the table: 1- How to give a gray background for the top row with using rules. 2- How to let the table span multiple pages. Thanks in advance.
How to color a table tex.stackexchange.com/questions/94799/how-do-i-color-table-columns Make table span multiple pages tex.stackexchange.com/questions/26462/make-a-table-span-multiple-pages If you google what you want it to do, you can almost always find a tutorial or solution out there ;)
@@alexandreb2000 For the bibliography to show you need to keep in mind the following: 1) You must import the package and link to the bib file where you paste all your references. I am using biblatex so that would be \usepackage[backend=biber, style=alphabetic, sorting=nyt]{biblatex} \addbibresource{references.bib} 2) For biblatex you must add something like \printbibliography[heading=bibintoc, title={References}] somewhere in a tex file of the document 3) The bibliography shows up only when there is at least one reference cited in the document. References do no show up in the bibliography when they are not cited. For example: \cite[~p.1]{Einstein_Electro-dynamik} 4) You need to make sure that your references in the .bib file do not contain characters in inappropriate places that 'break' the bibliography and cause it to not show up. I've had this happen a couple times. So test if each reference works before adding the next reference. Also make sure each category of the reference is seperated by a comma. If you miss one comma, the whole bibliography breaks. For example: @article{einstein, author = "Albert Einstein", title = "{Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter K{\"o}rper}. ({German}) [{On} the electrodynamics of moving bodies]", journal = "Annalen der Physik", volume = "322", number = "10", pages = "891--921" year = "1905", DOI = "dx.doi.org/10.1002/andp.19053221004", keywords = "physics" } will break the document because there is a comma missing in the "pages" category. Once the comma is added, the bibliography works fine.
I got a problem for formating in overleaf of MDPI manuscript.When i paste my abstruct into the format they are not accept my abstruct because in my abstruct there is (%) sign involved. So how can i solve that.Please help me by giving the code
@@TaylorSparks It works thanks. But i got another problem.I want to format a table and in my table i have to add 𝜇 this sign .But it dosenot appear. So what should i do for its appearance.
Hi there! Is there anywhere where we can access the project file? There are quite a few lines (specifically the settings and such) that would be quite tedious to type by hand that I would love to copy and paste directly into my document.
Unfortunately we didn't save a copy! I would love it if you could go through it and then send me the text. I would then make it available for other people who want to watch this video.
The all is very interesting, I have one question though. The essays I have to produce has to be in word. Am not sure but exist the possibility to write the essay in LateX pass in pdf and then in word not altering nothing in the last passage ( or directly from lateX to word still not altering nothing ? ) otherwise I had to bow my head to the sad Word processor
Great Tutorial! Question: I need my document to be in 2 columns so I used the multicol package, which wont support the figures or tables. I tried the wrapfig package but the text goes all down the side. Do you have a way of making your document 2-column friendly?
Hi Taylor, Thanks for the amazing tutorial. I just started using LaTex and you made it so quick and easy. I have a question though if you don't mind me asking. I am writing my text then I add a figure under it, but when I add a new text block under the figure the order of the paragraphs is messed up and the figure is dividing the new text. Thanks for helping !
Hello, try setting the parameter of your figure environment as 'h', which means here. For example, \begin{figure}[h] .... \end{figure}. This makes LaTeX to approximate the placement of the figure in the part of the document where you want it to be. I say approximate because sometimes it doesn't work. You can't use 'h!' to force it. Instead, you need to use the package float. This package provides the figure environment the H parameter, which actually forces LaTeX to move the figure in the document exactly where you place it on the source code, or in other words, where you want it to be.
TeX was completed in 1985, not the 70's. TeX is a program, not an "algorithm". The 'X' in TeX is meant to represent the Greek letter chi, which is pronounced like a gutteral 'k'.
Thank you for your tutorial. Can I have a question? I am wondering about the data security when using Latex on Overleaf. Could you please give me any suggestions? Best regards.
I haven't had any problems. It has a function where you can share the document with coworkers. It also has a possibility to share it with anybody who has a link. I guess if you shared it with anybody who has a link you might have security concerns, but if you just make sure you know who has the length or you use the login feature then I would not be worried about it.
@@TaylorSparks I was just about to start looking at your python tutorials. I’ve just recently got into data science and started using colab and streamlit. I understand the basics of python and pandas. I’m struggling to do matplotlib and seaborn visualisation on streamlit. Like histograms, boxplot, scatterplots.
@@georgettewebb I've got just what you're looking for. I put up a series of three videos on making beautiful plots with matplotlib. Here's a link to the first one. In the video description you will find the links to the second and third video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rUV8VFbUi_U.html
It is blurred when displayed on a laptop. Would it be possible instead to provide a copy of the source code? In that way your followers could follow on what you are discussing. Regards.
my question is " why we need latex when we have everything in MS word". I tried it and it was literally hard for each different document. for similar kind of documents, it can be good ( I don't know) or some math stuff .
There is a learning curve for latex. At first it's harder than word. I resisted at first too. Eventually you'll notice all your peers doing the best work are using latex though.
@@TaylorSparks Well I spent sometime last year on latex/TeX , however I didn't convince myself, though python language is also in latex style, however, MS word provide the same mathematical latex expressions now. And it's actually pretty fast to work on MS word especially when handling figures from Google. Or from text books. Then I tried to download some books on latex and there were only few, means it's versatility is also limited. It makes even more complicated when we try to add 3D figures from. Abode packages.. its my opinion.
@@TaylorSparks would you share more videos on latex ? If there is any like how to link latex reports with python calculations? In that case, latex would be awesome. Discussion sometimes generates ideas..
@@TaylorSparks I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that would make me a big fan of yours. That’ll be the end of it. I will look for you, I will pursue you. and I will subscribe for you.lol
Unfortunately, we didn't save the file afterwards. If you want to follow along with the video you will be able to recreate it though! In fact, if you send me that file afterwards I will post it to a GitHub so other people can have access.
Thiscan be done more efficiently in MS Word with Latex. It is totally unnecessary to use this on its own in 2022. Too many physicists and mathematicians are stuck with a system they can't move away from. Nature, for example, prefers submissions in Word, as the journal’s typesetting system requires this format, says Simon Gribbin, Nature’s managing production editor. Still, around one in ten accepted submissions are in LaTeX format; these are converted to Word before being passed to copy-editors, he says. But at Nature Physics, which covers disciplines in which LaTeX use is widespread, the editors are more flexible about document formatting. “LaTeX is just something that physicists ‘do’,” explains chief editor Andrea Taroni. “Trying to get them to do otherwise is like trying to herd cats.” Read more by searching "Craft beautiful equations in Word with LaTeX"
@@TaylorSparks Could I get your email for contact - I'm working on an assingment (just started PhD) and using LaTeX for the first time and unfortunantely what I'm after isn't covered in the above tutorial. Thanks.
