A note on version control: At some point I putting my latex docs into a git repo, and I haven't been looking back ever since. You're able to recover your document, easily work on multiple machines and always check your repo for some things you've had in the doc at some previeous point. Just put your temp files etc in a .gitinore or so
@liamoshea4299 Жыл бұрын
One of the nicest features of overleaf, as far as i am concerned, is its tight integration to github. Get the best of all worlds.
@Ladas552 Жыл бұрын
Damn, so scientist are just programers who try to disect the overly complicated code of nature because some dude really liked the if statements
@eshabaweja Жыл бұрын
Finally! Someone who explains each line of code from the creation of the .tex file to the end. Thank you :")
@kelvinmalunga23872 жыл бұрын
A really useful tool to exist on the internet indeed. Loved everything about the video. Thanks
@FlaminTubbyToast2 жыл бұрын
I would say that learning code makes learning latex Easier. Compiling/packages/and documentation, are fundamental concepts in code and they all play out here.
@haraldurkarlsson1147 Жыл бұрын
I would tend agree although there are some differences of course. But the basic idea of writing short code and then compiling to spot errors. That habit serves one well in pretty much any language.
@ThomasRintoul Жыл бұрын
Agreed. I had been exposed to quite a few coding languages (Python, R, Maple) before I first used LaTeX. I attended a workshop taught by one of the lecturers in the School of Physics in St Andrews and it was definitely taught with the knowledge we at least knew a little about coding. It helps!
@piacere_lore2 жыл бұрын
Just found this video as I'm writing my undergrad thesis in astronomy, thanks a lot! Suuuper useful!
@SimonTiger3 жыл бұрын
Sublime is bad, it's not free while Atom and VSCode are. Btw I have also seen people use VIM which is popular on Linux and it's a text editor where you navigate around with the keyboard instead of the mouse. I don't use it but it's worth mentioning
@jgchicken21332 жыл бұрын
Hi, I use Vim with vimtex plugin and they works great! Vim with the right plugin is no worse than VSCode imo.
@SpudMackenzie2 жыл бұрын
Sublime is good. It was my favorite editor during my undergrad. It's nagware so I only actually bought the license after like 10 years of use. It hits a good balance of being lightweight where atom and vscode definitely aren't while being more full featured than say notepad++ and less arcane than vim or emacs.
@bogdanskout33262 жыл бұрын
@@jgchicken2133 Have you ever tried emacs? 😂😂
@jgchicken21332 жыл бұрын
@@bogdanskout3326 My professor use eMacs but I prefer Vim, its more familiar to me
@your-mom-irl Жыл бұрын
VSCode is not free (as in freedom) Although there's a libre version called codium or vscodium. I tried and it's pretty good if you are used to that kind of editor, it's pretty much the samr as vscode just eithout the MS branding and telemetry
@josephdevine78753 жыл бұрын
Been looking for a video like this for a while, cheers 👍
@alexgodeye3031 Жыл бұрын
If this man keeps at it, he's gonna be huge as a KZbinr.
@zacharypalmertree3 жыл бұрын
This was a very useful video! I have been trying to setup Latex with Vim in WSL 2 Ubuntu with no success. This approach seems much more straightforward. Thank you.
@PeterPrevos3 жыл бұрын
LyX is a great LaTeX editor that makes it much easier to use.
@AriHoresh2 жыл бұрын
My team and I are working on some open-sourced biology and chemistry books, and this video made things SO much easier for us. You are awesome, keep it up!
@ThomasRintoul2 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad! This sort of thing is exactly why I made this video. So happy it was useful for you!
@trevinbeattie4888 Жыл бұрын
When I discovered these tools (way back in the 1990’s) I started learning TeX with the help of Donald Knuth’s “The TeXbook” and practiced writing documents with that before starting LaTeX. Raw TeX is much more low-level and doesn’t provide the uniform document styles LaTeX has, but I’m a software developer and doing it this way helped me understand how LaTeX works under the hood. The main thing I like about TeX is it’s a very stable language and well documented, unlike proprietary document formats like MS Word which seems to change every version or so and doesn’t always play nicely with 3rd-party editors.
@ThomasRintoul Жыл бұрын
Oh I basically use LaTeX for just about everything these days. It's just so much better than fighting with Word
@markanderson8066 Жыл бұрын
I had the Haliday and Resnick Physics text asxa student. And Resnick was our lecturer! Great demos!
@ThomasRintoul Жыл бұрын
It's amazing how much more engaging lectures can be if you've got someone who can do good demos!
@FinancialEngineering-cp5ef Жыл бұрын
Latex is great, but I would always recommend one to use a linux OS with vim or nvim as it just allows for greater freedom than these online latex editors.
@SimonTiger3 жыл бұрын
Oh, is % for comments? Because you just plopped in "% some text" without explaining it not far into the video
@ARMAN124562 жыл бұрын
Hi, thank you for your video. I've started using Atom for latex documentation. As soon as I run something, the PDF is being opened in the system PDF reader as well as in the atom window. Can you please let me know how to refrain from the system PDF reader?
@kvelez6 ай бұрын
You should do an update but using VSCode.
@aric22 жыл бұрын
Hey Thomas, just started to learn latex. Thanks for this awesome video!
@mrphysics26252 жыл бұрын
Hey dude Thank you for making this video. for whatever f****ing reason my physics program didnt teach us anything about LaTeX in undergrad.
@IznbranahlGoose2 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine swears by Mathematica when it comes to writing documents. While Mathermatica is known for equation solving and programming you can also create publishable documents with it. I've tried it and it has a 'decent' WISIWYG interface for writing that includes equations however I found it rather lacking in publication ready tools. If they're there at all they're poorly documented.
@tyrantfox780110 күн бұрын
I started learning LATEX to prepare my resume. Set it up in my windows machine with VScode
@petebryan04 Жыл бұрын
what is the switches on the keyboard?
@ThomasRintoul Жыл бұрын
They are Cherry MX Browns
@Marco-kd7jk2 жыл бұрын
Great breakdown. Subscribed.
@haraldurkarlsson11472 жыл бұрын
As a Mac user I use TeXShop. TeXMaker which runs on both Mac and PC is also good but I prefer TeXShop.
@prtygrl50776 ай бұрын
Any reason that you don't use Lyx software? may be you're promoting that online tool? just curious
@ThomasRintoul6 ай бұрын
To be honest I've never heard of LyX. I was using Atom at the time because it was a free editor that I liked the flexibility of using. Now Atom has been discontinued sadly. I now use the JetBrains IDEs - programs like PyCharm for python programming and IntelliJ Idea for everything else. I'll also sometimes use Overleaf for LaTeX now as well, as long as I don't need to write anything on the go because it depends on internet access. Ultimately, it doesn't matter what editor you use - so use whatever works for you!
@prtygrl50776 ай бұрын
@@ThomasRintoul aha, now I know, you're promoting online tools 😅 ok ok, let's assume you don't know about lyx. Hope the online tools you promote pay you well for the unwavering support you provide for them.
@ThomasRintoul6 ай бұрын
I'm not promoting them for money. They do not pay me. It's just the tools I use - mostly with university licences Additionally, the JetBrains IDEs are offline tools
@pra.2 жыл бұрын
Did you continue using Atom after it’s depreciation?
@ThomasRintoul2 жыл бұрын
I moved on from it to using JetBrains IDEs like Idea Ultimate and Pycharm with an educational license. Sad to see it getting archived though
@IanTeves-e2p5 ай бұрын
overleaf or vim tex is what I use.
@Andrumen012 жыл бұрын
Word has become quite good at equations, the looks. The numbering of equations in Word is always a problem, though.
@kenopyowo2 жыл бұрын
also the best ide on the market by far
@TAP7a2 жыл бұрын
The handling of bibliographies is also incredibly tiresome in Word. Not as tiresome as formatting and numbering equations, because you only have to sort the bibliography once properly, but hardly frictionless. And images (with captions) are still... yeah. Word has come a long way, but it's still not LaTeX.
@cheeseplated10 ай бұрын
Didn't see it anywhere so for anyone wondering: utf-8 is a way if representing the text internally. If you dont specify it it may default to ASCII (i think?, don't quote me on this) Which doesn't have characters such as ü, ç, ß, etc. so they wont show up correctly. utf-8 has all those characters so it will work, nowadays comuters will usually default to more modern representations, but older languageslike LaTeX sometimes still need utf-8 manually specified.
@ricseeds4835 Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry but can anyone read what he's typing?
@thorstenwidmer7275 Жыл бұрын
yes, that is easy
@matteopiccioni196 Жыл бұрын
Bro atom is deprecated it will disappear soon
@ThomasRintoul Жыл бұрын
I know. This video is a couple years old now. It was nice while it lasted. The rest of the video is still accurate though.
@yolamontalvan95029 ай бұрын
Látex is a technology of the 80’s. But I would like to learn it if it is free. Thanks for the info. I tried PDF and PostScript to make graphics, but they were hard to learn. PostScript was OK but PDF was even harder because it is not a programming language like PostScript.
@theultimatereductionist7592 Жыл бұрын
I did my 274-page doctoral dissertation for Rutgers University in 2000 and published 8 peer reviewed math papers from 2001 to 2012 all in MS Word + Mathtype. I began with Mathtype in 1997. I've heard of tex/latex since I entered graduate school at Rutgers in math in 1988. I have never figured out how to use them. Tried over a dozen times. That is how worthless and user-unfriendly and horrible tex/latex are.
@prtygrl50776 ай бұрын
As a ms word user (and it's good), the equations are worst with MS Word. TBH it's sh!!t
@ThomasRintoul6 ай бұрын
Oh I totally agree. It's better than it used to be, but if you have to do anything with a lot of equations, figures or references, LaTeX is by far superior - particularly for long documents
@konsamtambradhwaja3870 Жыл бұрын
It's a very useful video! Thank you for making this video.💯❤
@Coolblueocean20013 жыл бұрын
Too long of an intro. Cut it short, and waste less time.