Overleaf For Beginners

If you read the title you must be asking yourself - What Overleaf actually is?

Overleaf is an online program that is almost an exact copy of LaTex program. The programs are used by programers as Office Word or IOS Pages tool. But you might be asking yourself - if we have a perfectly good tools as Word... Why would we be using a programmer tool for a simple task? The answer is very simple once you started to use their tools.

Few advantages I found in it are:

• better understanding of programming languages on their own,

• better and more flexible functions,

• everyone can access it online if needed.

Knowing how Overleaf works was an amazing starter support for me when I started learning Python later on. Since I already understood some basic commands of programming languages. So here is a few things I found crucial to know when I started using Overleaf.

1. Pages With Help and Support Informations

For the start you need the Overleaf program itself. All it takes for you start it is a free sign in (program is also free for the most part, payable functions don't affect your work in it) with your mail account and creation of a password. I do however command you to use a mail you check regularly.

The next page that is super useful overall is LaTex Wiki. It contains a library of special symbols and short commands that you will use all time.

And last one you need is an Overleaf help center page. There you will find all the informations and examples of how to write in a program.

2. Basic Commands

Here is the basic construction of a draft for report that you might need or use in future. You can just copy it and can write your report in it. Any alterations you might need to add a descript in the draft.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{tabularx}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\usepackage{geometry}

\geometry{

a4paper,

total={170mm,257mm},

left=20mm,

top=20mm}

\title{TITLE}

\author{AUTHOR}

\begin{document}

\date{DATE}

\maketitle

\section{TITLE OF 1st SECTION}

\subsection{1st Subsection}

Insert your text here. [Everytime you finish your text and wish to move to new line, just add \\ to the end of the row.]

\subsection{2nd Subsection}

Insert your text here.\\

[To add more sections or subsections add command \section{} or \subsection{}

and start writting]

\newpage

If you wish to make a table use this code. If you need more rows you need to add c| to this colum: \begin{tabular}{c|c|c} and add extra & \textbf{} to this row: \textbf{Merjenec} & \textbf{d} \\.

\begin{table}[h!]

\begin{center}

\label{tab:table1}

\begin{tabular}{c|c|c}

\textbf{1st colum} & \textbf{2nd colum} & \textbf{3rd colum} \\

\hline

text & text & text \\

text & text & text \\

text & text & text \\

\end{tabular}

\end{center}

\end{table}

\subsection{Calculations}

If you are writing calculations into your text here is a few examples of different equations:

Keep in mind that when you are applying special symbols you need to refer to a special symbols table you find in one of the upper links with help sides. Also when you writing greek letters you must writhem them with words. Depending if you will write them with upper letter for a start or lower letter you will have an upper or smaller greek letter. Here is the example of that:\\

$a+b=c$\\

$\frac{a}{b}=c$\\

$\sqrt{a+b}=c$\\

$\frac{\sqrt{ab}}{c}$\\

$a \cdot b=c$\\

$A_{1}+B_{2}=C_1$\\

$A^2+B^{2n+k}=d$\\

$\textbf{\omega}$\\

$\textbf{\Omega}$

\\

If you wish to include picture you need to add this code:

$$\includegraphics[scale=0.65]{folder/title of picture}$$

\end{document}

With this you will be able to write down all the basic reports you might need. If you have a need to add any more special elements you will find codes and examples for all of them in the help pages I liked in paragraph 1.

Well we came to an end of this post - so see ya later alligator!