LaTeX for Students – A Simple Quickstart Guide

In this video I plainly explain the basics of LaTeX with a focus on how a student might begin to use it, such that by the end of the video you will feel ready enough to begin creating your own beautiful documents with LaTeX.

I made this video because I wish I had one like it when I began my LaTeX journey, and hope to share what I have learned with others in a simple, easy to follow way.

Resources:

Table of Contents
0:00 - Introduction
1:34 - Overleaf Intro
3:00 - Basic structure
4:05 - Math intro/setup
5:13 - Inline math
6:20 - Equations
7:22 - Detexify/symbols
8:02 - Images
10:56 - Document customization
13:10 - Conclusion

[kp]

LaTeX is the software that taught me not to fear documentation. I think PGF/TikZ has a pdf with like 2K pages and barely anything else, so you either extract what you need from there or don't use it. And it's actually not that hard, one just has to overcome that initial feeling of being overwhelmed.

[interrupted_reverie]

This is extremely well done, you didn't bombard us with useless information and made everything seem quite easy to understand.Thank you

[Noep]

Great video ! You explain things really well, while still keeping it quick and simple.

[nelsonberm]

Thank you for making this so easy to understand, now my homework looks super neat and cool

[sohaibahmedmughal]

very informative as a beginner thanx a lot for such an easy of delivering useful steps.

[Blade_of_Tomoe]

Keeping true to the simplicity. Nice video.

[yedmavus]

You sound just like ReviewBrah!
Great video, and one of the best for a beginner.
Thanks and Cheers!

[qymxoxj]

Which font do you use in the editor pane?

[eldeivis]

I wanna know how to have that editor and integration of the first part of the video

[satyam]

Can you please provide the source code in description of 0:02 time

[davidrogers]

Thank You for the beginner video. Do you have one for creating a lab book?

[devolinasharma]

Hi, how to add the range of a variable index on the right, like i= 1, ...n?

[AhmedThahir]

Could you make a video where you make an actual project report using latex?
I'm gonna be doing a research project soon and I'll have to make a report.

[pshychedelicdog]

My Photo is not displaying when i do these comands. And i do not know why. If anyone has any advice pls help

[aquss]

Is there an editor that lets me edit the equations real-time like in word, at least a symbols tab would be appreciated, I cannot stand having to constantly hit "altgr+some key" to get the stupid slashes, carets... and all the stuff required? As it stands right now, I don't see myself ever switching from word, even though LaTeX looks much nicer word is just so much faster.

[AhmedThahir]

And what's the editor in the left at the start of the video?

[Achyles]

How did you integrate Emacs inside overleaf? Could you explain? Cool...

[jvarunkumar]

Can you please provide a link to this overleaf project.
Thanks :)

[lorenzosartelli]

Sorry if i look arrogant, but its pronunced "LateK" not "LateX" because the "X" Is a greek lettere with a pronunciation more similiar to K than X

[brajlecz]

Great video with everything one needs to get started. Really nice, thank you for this. I really dislike the way you talk tho :(