Difference between revisions of "Overleaf instruction"

Revision as of 11:38, 14 February 2017

To edit or make comments in the latex source, signup and signin at https://www.overleaf.com, then go to site with a good browser (latest firefox or Chrome is recommended)

overleaf.com is an online collaborating tool for latex. Several persons can edit at the same time, everyone can see all changes in real time. check out its help page

all edits are auto saved, there is labeling and version control ability built in

• Instructions for editing and commenting
  • We use pdflatex, so don't use any eps for figures, use pdf instead or png,jpg if you have to.
  • click "project" to see file panel, then choose a tex file to edit or comment, choose a dir to upload file into it, drag and drop to move files and dirs around
  • click "+" to make comment at the current location in tex file, you can also delete comments once it's fixed
  • "Rich text" has nice features, but it's not always as reliable as "Source"
  • let "preview" stay at "manual", NOT at "auto", then click "refresh preview" to compile, any error will show up for you to debug
  • If "refresh preview" gives no error, you can click "pdf" to download a pdf of the current version. This is better way to view the doc instead of preview if the document is long.
  • add a label after you have some major edit by "history & revisions"

ask Zhiwen Zhao zwzhao@jlab.org for any question