Overleaf

Here is an excerpt from Chapter 1, Getting Started with LaTeX. Working with LaTeX online using Overleaf Installing LaTeX on your computer is recommended, but it can take up about 8 GB on your hard drive and two hours to install it. How about simply using LaTeX in your internet browser? Here comes Overleaf. It’s a pure online LaTeX service that mathematicians enthusiastic about TeX started in 2011. You can access it through this link: In this section about Overleaf, we will do the following: • Check the Overleaf requirements • Look at the benefits of Overleaf • Evaluate possible caveats • Use the Overleaf editor • Try out Writefull Let’s go online now. What Overleaf requires and delivers To use Overleaf, you need any internet browser, such as Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or Edge. You don’t need any other local software such as a LaTeX compiler, editor, or PDF viewer. It is free for basic usage, and that covers a lot. It provides a complete TeX Live with unlimited projects and a feature-rich editor, real-time-sync collaboration with another user, and hundreds of templates to start with. You can easily write your thesis or book with Overleaf with free usage. An advanced personal or professional subscription costs money and provides additional features, such as the following: • Unlimited collaborators per project • Document history (going back and forth between document versions) • Advanced bibliography management (with Mendeley) • Dropbox sync integration • GitHub integration • Pr...