LaTeX for the Busy

LaTeX is a of technical writing software that allows the professional presentation of scientific information in an almost fully customizable fashion. It is the industry standard in scientific writing, and has been used to write 800 page partial differential equations textbooks, to guides about LaTeX itself written by students. The latter is actually exactly what we have here.

Below is a guide to getting started with LaTeX. It goes over essentials and even gives a few styling tips, as well as useful tools to make your documents have the full impact they deserve.

• My current editor of choice is the online editor Overleaf. It is a very popular editor because it is completely online which allows for multiple authors to edit the document, as well as have access to your documents wherever you go. A while back Overleaf merged with ShareLaTeX (the online editor I used to use) and now the platform has the best of both worlds.
• An offline editor that I used to use is Texmaker. Though, if your intent is to work offline, you will also need a TeX distribution. Overleaf has an excellent guide on the matter.

Here I have included an example .tex file so you can actually see how an average code looks.