Team Project Check-In

Session Overview

Overleaf

An Integrated Development Environment for LaTeX

Google Docs with Git for Publications

LaTeX

• Typesetting Language
• Markup Language for Publications
• High Quality PDFs
• Plain Text -> Version Control!

Advantages of LaTeX

• High Quality, Publication Ready Scientific Documents with low overhead
  • Journal Templates!
• Super easy reference management (and easy reformatting)
• Tight integration with Git and Figure generation pipeline for reproducible research
• Excellent symbol, math, formula support
• Fine control over layout
• Classes!

Advantages of Overleaf

• Visual and source editor
• Integration with Journal Templates and publishing pipelines
• Team Collaboration and Sharing
• Nice Editing features for comments, etc.

Resources

• Overleaf Documentation
• Quick Guide to Latex
• LaTeX Reference Guides
• Mendeley and Zotero Integration

Getting Started

1. Create a new project in your OverLeaf account from this template.
   • Click Open as a Template
2. Look for: Comments, Sharing, Menu Options, etc.

We will work through setting up this up more and connecting to git in our Team Project Time.

Course Reference Guide