My thank to www.overleaf.com for sponsoring today's video. I've used them for years prior to being sponsored and their cloud based LaTeX editor has so many useful free or premium features that just makes it easier to write a thesis.
Overleaf is da bomb. I can edit my documents on my PC, my MacBook, someone else’s PC or Mac, or my iPad! I’m supposed to be starting a Level 7 Apprenticeship in Data Science later this year. Prepping for that has highlighted that I’ve forgotten pretty much all of the statistics I learned back in the 1980s and early 90s (I graduated in Biochemistry in 1993). Taking the principle that the best way to learn is to try to teach, I’m writing up what I’m learning in the form of a textbook in LaTeX.
Thank you so much for this video. I was literally looking for one just three nights ago that shows how to do a thesis from scratch, and not just using templates. This is GREAT!
Ulimate tip: Get the tex-file from somebody who recently published his thesis. Keep all the layout-config issues, try to successful run it on your tex system, just fill it with your content - in case you are not sure how to write a nice table, exotic equation, etc. there is a good chance your colleague already figured it out, otherwise it is 5min of google it.
@@KT-dj4iyThe problem is, that every university has different regulations, sometime you have differences between different departments. Google wont help here. The safest way is to get the source file of a "good" thesis that is not older then 2-3 yrs.
This Latex thing needs two people. One who creates content and another who likes to fiddle with code. Nature, for example, prefers submissions in Word, as the journal’s typesetting system requires this format, says Simon Gribbin, Nature’s managing production editor. Still, around one in ten accepted submissions are in LaTeX format; these are converted to Word before being passed to copy-editors, he says. But at Nature Physics, which covers disciplines in which LaTeX use is widespread, the editors are more flexible about document formatting. “LaTeX is just something that physicists ‘do’,” explains chief editor Andrea Taroni. “Trying to get them to do otherwise is like trying to herd cats.” Everything that was done here can be done in MS Word. There would be rare occasions where only Latex will do.
In my experience it is easier to write in LaTeX. The code for the content and the code for the styles is separate. So I can focus better on the content of the paper on I have finished writing the boilerplate for the formatting. Much easier than MS Word where content and formatting is done together. On top of that institutions/clients often have their own templates which makes things infinitely easier.
Just now I am writting my thesis using LaTex (Overleaf). LaTeX is a powerful techinique to waste time... Try to use quotation marks, for exemple, and all things like that. Making tables is the hell and so on. Not a simple text editor to master...
Hi, first of all a tone of thanks for making this playlist on LATEX. As a beginner I am absolutely able to follow what you are saying. In this part of the video at 13:29 I tried putting a * like so: \include*{Chapter3-Conclusion} --> On compiling the Conclusion section disappears completely. I tried to put a * in the conlusion.tex file like so: \chapter{Conclusion} --> That didnt help either. Could you please let me know the solution?
I do not need to watch this video to know, that he is right. Why? Short answer, why isn't it possible to write (stable) texts with "Word" ? If you could do so, it would have been named "Text". Longer answer: i do not know another affordable text system, thats so powerfull and stable at one time. The way getting into it may be a bit steep, but other as Word it shows you any mistake from beginning. Word is able to show your early mistake one day before you have the deadline, with no chance to recover it! Even my former girlfriend, who was the opposite of a techie, switched from word to LaTeX in a social topic, after she experienced problems with the bibliography. Before you ask, she is my wife now. I never stopped using LaTex, even as a teacher. Now i use it to do develop my ads and write a novel. Tipp: use a successfull example as frame for your own thesis, if you are a beginner. That lets you get up the first steeo way by an elevator. I use the Windows Version of LaTeX, i find it very comfortable in combination with WinEdt, the best editor i have ever seen.
I clicked on this although I probably will never go to university, and I have to admit: my uneducated ass always understands "feces" instead of "thesis", which quite frankly I think is hilarious :D
Grad students! Professor here. Please focus on content, and stop wasting time learning LaTex to perfection. Try say something that will truly excite the minds of people around you. If you do that, then if you want to write your entire thesis in pencil, I am fine with that too.
Wrote my thesis two years ago...and it's funny how much similar my latex is built up. Few tips after reviewing my latex document, feel free to use them (I know some of them might be included in upcoming videos): - I recommend making a folder for each chapter and it this folder a figures/images/whatever folder together with the tex file of the chapter. This way it's easier to preview images for a certain chapter. Otherwise the list gets so long you can search for a long time searching for a particular file name. Also it allows to easily extract a single chapter if you want to include it into another document (e.g. if your start with your PhD afterwards and a chapter of your thesis will be a chapter of your PhD as well). -Make at least two versions of compilable documents, one for publishing online without empty pages (oneside), and one for printing (twoside, \cleardoublepage after each chapter to get the begin of the chapter always on an odd page). You can normally use the same "main" section and include it in both versions to keep them in sync with the latest version (\cleardoublepage will be ignored for oneside), and the beginning you make different (Documentclass parameters, extra white pages). With this technique of including the same main you can easily make more variations if wanted (e.g. a version with extened abstract and one without, make one for different page sizes, make a black and white variant for alpha versions, etc.) -Use \afterpage{\blankpage} if you want to add blank pages (For printed version handy at some places, you don't want to add blank pages manually and risking to forget this or mess it up or have to do this for each copy you print. Also always include 2 blank pages at once if you print twoside, as this is 1 blank page when printing. -You can use \pagenumbering{gobble} for everything before the main section, this wil be numbered then in Roman numbers. Reset to latin after the table of contents with \setcounter{page}{1}. It's imho nicer when your main book starts again at page 1. -Put your settings and usepackages and similar things in a separate file (it's quite basic in the video, it will get messier often in real life) (and use \include to include it in the mains). The mains will stay very clean this way. -If you get a template for a titlepage of your university in Word and there is not latex template (or you have difficulties with the latex template to be compatible with your latex document for some reason): you can still use it, just make the page, create a pdf of it and include the pdf. The one annoying thing about it is when you have to fill in a date of handing in, then you need to do this last minute...but 9/10 this is the due date you fill in there ;)
> _-Put your settings and usepackages and similar things in a separate file (it's quite basic in the video, it will get messier often in real life) (and use \include to include it in the mains). The mains will stay very clean this way_ thanks for this (:
For the titlepage custom template: I had a Word version of it, saved as .pdf, cropped the white spaces on the sides using an online free tool, then added in latex as follows: \begin{document} \begin{center} \thispagestyle{empty} %suppress page number \includegraphics[scale=1]{YourTemplate} \afterpage{ ull\thispagestyle{empty}\clearpage} %add a blank page after \end{center}
First year engineering student here. Getting in the habit of using TeX early and my lecturers seem to appreciate it. Sure, it takes a little more effort to finish a write up, but having consistent style throughout everything I do means that when I start revising, I can easily switch between documents and have the same layout. Also, writing equations feels so much more streamlined than say, Microsoft Word.
I had a choice of using Microsoft Word or Latex for my thesis in 1990, 32 years ago. I chose Microsoft Word - it was easier, faster and I don't regret it. The compilation time for Latex was terrible and the effort to view my document was horrendous. My thesis was full of very complex algebra and calculus - the Microsoft formula editor was fantastic and instant. Footnotes, index, cross-references, appendices, formatting, styles : it was all there and easy and obvious. I think it's just like the Apple-Microsoft battle - it's just a choice.
@@idjles in 1992/3 I wrote my final year project in WordPerfect, I’d never heard of LaTeX at the time. I was studying Biochemistry so LaTeX possibly wouldn’t have been as useful as if I’d been studying maths or physics. Were I doing it now I would, however, be using LaTeX due to the number of graphs I had and access to Chemtex for molecular structures. There’s also the fact that now there are a lot of add on tools that pretty much plugin (e.g. Mendeley and Zotero for reference management) and libraries of LaTeX fragments that mean you can pretty much just download stuff that I had to create from scratch.
As a mechanical engineer you already have a leg up on your peers if you know latex! Many don’t and it shows. I have a math degree and I’m undergrad I thought my aeronautical engineer friend to use latex and all of her professors loved her lol
Oooh Man, I turned a blind eye to Latex, after I watched some videos to other instructors.. Once I watched this video, I realized, that I have missed too much.. Thanks so much
I should be done writing my thesis, but here I am three weeks before my defense date, writing and shifting what I have from word to LaTeX. I don't know how I could've completed two years of a master's in physics using just word, but I'm glad that I have this video to get by. Thank you so much, Trefor!
@@PrototypeHQ1 Successfully written and defended! Wasn't my best work, and I wasn't all too happy with the final product, but it's complete and I'm proud of it. I'll live to plan better for my Ph.D. Thanks for asking guys :)
On my university LaTeX was mandatory for master thesis. Our facility even had its own template. At first it quite difficulty, but later on you start to appreciate it. To this day I still use LaTeX for my resume
I did my undergraduate final project in LaTex and I loved it, no headaches with the bibliography or the table of contents or the formulas. I even got an honorable mention! Totally recommend it. (Btw my career is software engineering)
@@ErikaAlejandraGonzalez Oi, Erika! Eu estou tendo muitas dificuldades. Parar a cada momento para pesquisar no Google como se faz um comando é muito estressante. Minha tese já passou das 200 páginas e fui obrigado a comprar uma assinatura de 15 dólares para aumentar o tempo de compilação. A única vantagem que vejo é o fato do LaTex atualizar o sumário, a relação de figuras, etc. AUTOMATICAMENTE. No mais perde-se muito com coisas desnessárias. I BEG YOUR PARDON FOR WRITTING IN PORTUGUESE. I JUST WOKE UP AND THE ENGLISH BUTTON IN MY BRAIN DOESN´T WORK WELL...
@@setherine9071 Great decision! It was great in terms of the bibliography citation, list of contents and esthetically features, such as pagination, margins, etc. Once you get used to LaTex, you realize is much easier than MS Word and you will do everything there haha
Wow! I can't believe how short it is. My meteorology PhD thesis was just over 300 pages long. I guess if you prove something mathematically, you don't need a lot of waffle! I wrote my thesis in Latex, and I thought it was fairly simple. Trying to get figures and captions and references to work in Microsoft Word is horrendous!
Ya it just totally depends what you are doing. Some math PhDs definitely will be far longer, but others not. I have a rather infamous six month portion of my life that contributed to a half page:D
Hello! Thank you so much for this video. I'm glad you're covering this topic at more length. I'm getting a mathematics degree, so I'm sure you can imagine how useful this is for me. Your first video regarding the subject and your great ability to convey meaning was the nail in the coffin for me to actually start learning Latex. Now I'm quite obsessed; I even wrote a presentation (for which, one traditionally uses slides) on Dedekind Cuts using Latex, and it looked more like a paper than a presentation. I have no regrets. On a side note, learning Latex made learning Python more comprehensible for me as I had no prior experience writing "codes" beforehand. My point is, thank you so much for your effort and wonderful teaching. It really did have an impact on someone's academic experience🌻
I already know how to use latex but I'm just keeping this for a reference in the near future hahaha BY THE WAY you should do a tutorial with the command tabular, when I do a table with a lot of horizontal values, it looks well... Weird and I would like some tips to make it look better lol
Nice video, I think for PhD thesis also is important to know how to do figures (histogram, graph ..etc.) in pure latex using pgfplots ..and Gnuplot LATEX.
in my first year of studyung physics (2012) we were shown Latex by the profs in a short seminar to use it to write our essays etc. I haven't seen a single word page ever since. I don't understand a single person not using it.
Thank you so so much, I'm not into computer and coding but you make it really really easy for me to my write my thesis... yours teaching skills are great ..... may Allah bless you and grant you house in jannah... Ameen
I got the template from my teacher 4 years ago and since then I always used the same. I even recently wrote my Bachelor’s thesis with the same template.
Economics student here. I work a lot with statistical and econometric modelling in my term papers and research. Idek why I've never heard of LaTeX. It's much more convenient than MS Office or even Google Docs urggh. LaTeX makes a lot of sense. Writing many mathematical formulas on a MS Word file is such a hassle. Google Docs is even worse
I've been using LaTeX for years and thought I knew it, but I hadn't used it for large documents before writing my master thesis. Then I ran into quite a few problems and this video thaught me a lot of different nuances that makes the experience a lot smoother.
If you have some time to learn and a Unix-like system or WSL go for VIM+Latex+Git. You'll spend some time configuring and learning how to use everything but if you are patient you'll get a powerful tool you can use for free and with a faster flow. And not only for latex, you could use it eventually for any programming language also. A big learning curve but you won't need any other IDE again.
Hello Sir, I used latex on Windows (Texlive 2019). I am going to change it to MacOS (MacTex last version), But my previous latex in windows cannot run on MacOS. How to fix this problem? Thank you so much.
just need to start my BSc Thesis and will go on with an research masters afterwards.. so probably something to look in thanks! btw does it also have a spellchecker for German build in? otherwise I need to fallback to vim and git :P
Everyone, save time and just jump the bla bla bla propaganda about "I love overleaf...etc" because when a video is sponsored in this way does not give any credibility to the youtuber's talking. Just go straight to what matters...
I did everything you did but I am getting errors regarding the \cite{}. No matter what I do, my bibliography page shows nothing and citations are showing like [?] this. Help me if anyone can.
Hi DrTrefor, when I used \include, the alignment of chapter changes in the main text. but it is fine in the chapter file. What can I do? Could you help?
So, how about you do it all according to APA 7th edition requirements. Because this is not what 'thesis' will look like. Sure, you made it overly simplistic and maybe that was your goal but then the title is misleading.
Thank you very much! You are amazing! Could you please inform me if it is safe to write unpublish papers in overleaf? Thank you in advance and congratulation for the video one more time!
First year engineering student here. Getting in the habit of using TeX early and my lecturers seem to appreciate it. Sure, it takes a little more effort to finish a write up, but having consistent style throughout everything I do means that when I start revising, I can easily switch between documents and have the same layout. Also, writing equations feels so much more streamlined than say, Microsoft Word.
The only way I will learn TeX/LaTeX is if somebody PAYS ME for MY time to learn it, and they personally tutor me on it. This should be NO problem for the TeX/LaTeX fanatic, since for THEM spending millions of hours trying to figure out obscure code is a joy for them, rather than click and drag and getting on with the business of actually doing mathematics.
Omg I am just starting to write my thesis and your video is a lifesaver! Thank you soooo much! :) I have really enjoyed your video and I have learned so much! :D
I watched several videos on your channel. The problem is your video overlay. It is very distractive. It takes space on the screen. I had to look for another channel to get a better experience.
please make tutorial for how to make types of signature index for teachers on pages like one side signature at left or right, two signature index side by side etc
We have LaTex as an elective course in the Bachelor's programme of physics Major in my University. Initial learning curve is steep for me atleast. I am still struggling a lot but I am still enjoying it given the fact that LaTex gives us full freedom to customize documents and frees is from the limitations of word processors. Just a terminal along with a text editor and document viewer, and I am good to go
I can't for the life of me get the page number to be on the bottom right side of every single page. I don't get why it has to be this difficult to change such a simple detail.
Nice video! One thing I struggled with overleaf is when showing changes after review. Is there anyway to show changes without using the premium version?😅
I believe tracking changes is only a premium feature, but you can always do it the old fashion way of creating many versions of your files, one for each update.
How to reduce the vertical space from the top of the paper to and bottom of the chapter and section. Also how to reduce the vertical space between chapter and paragraph.
Hi, thank you for sharing your insights!!! My question is how is it possible to make the star in order to get the chapter without numeration on a mac 😂 Thank you for your help
My thank to www.overleaf.com for sponsoring today's video. I've used them for years prior to being sponsored and their cloud based LaTeX editor has so many useful free or premium features that just makes it easier to write a thesis.
Overleaf is da bomb. I can edit my documents on my PC, my MacBook, someone else’s PC or Mac, or my iPad!
I’m supposed to be starting a Level 7 Apprenticeship in Data Science later this year. Prepping for that has highlighted that I’ve forgotten pretty much all of the statistics I learned back in the 1980s and early 90s (I graduated in Biochemistry in 1993). Taking the principle that the best way to learn is to try to teach, I’m writing up what I’m learning in the form of a textbook in LaTeX.
Hi Trevor,
I was wondering what software you use when you write handwritten comments on the screen.
Cheers Ruud
It's a pity that I didn't find your video earlier.😂
Thank you so much for this video. I was literally looking for one just three nights ago that shows how to do a thesis from scratch, and not just using templates. This is GREAT!
Glad I could help!
@@DrTrefor You did a great job! I couldn't get the APA referencing working though. Could I expect a short guideline in an upcoming video?
HOW CAN I LIKE THIS VIDEO A MILLION TIMES! Thank you so much Dr. Trefor!
Damn! Prof. Trefor is back with a bam!!
Ulimate tip: Get the tex-file from somebody who recently published his thesis. Keep all the layout-config issues, try to successful run it on your tex system, just fill it with your content - in case you are not sure how to write a nice table, exotic equation, etc. there is a good chance your colleague already figured it out, otherwise it is 5min of google it.
Tecx file format link please
@@prajaktaghodake3790 , ermm, how about 2:40? 🤨 Also, Googling for 'latex templates' produces lots of useful hits.
5 minute? i am trying to get the chapters properly displayed and work on it for hours now. It just doesn't work correctly.
@@KT-dj4iyThe problem is, that every university has different regulations, sometime you have differences between different departments. Google wont help here. The safest way is to get the source file of a "good" thesis that is not older then 2-3 yrs.
@@Salamaleikum80 Try overleaf. They have a ton of nice templates complete with example code for figures, subfigures, tables etc.
I wrote my thesis using LaTeX in Texmaker as a mechanical engineer. Thank you for this tutorial video, i think it can help a lot of people.
Went thru university with this tool. used terminal and modem from home. no $$$ for 486 machine. made me learn unix and still used today.
Back in 1981, my Masters was written using QED line editor and ROFF text formatter on a Honeywell mainframe. It was all about words!
I really hope to use your video very soon (as soon I can get results to write my PhD thesis). Thanks!!!
good luck with the results!
You can hit control + s or cms + s for compilation
This seems very useful for someone in electrical engineering
Definitely!
Awwww! What do you mean "Thesis left to the reader!" 😝
Just a little math joke since our books love leaving proofs for us to do! 😂
Finally. Thanks so much for this video.
My pleasure!
Thank you sir
You don't need to have a LaTeX editor. Just use the CLI like it was designed.
Very Useful Indeed
Thank you,, Dr. Trefor
This Latex thing needs two people. One who creates content and another who likes to fiddle with code. Nature, for example, prefers submissions in Word, as the journal’s typesetting system requires this format, says Simon Gribbin, Nature’s managing production editor. Still, around one in ten accepted submissions are in LaTeX format; these are converted to Word before being passed to copy-editors, he says.
But at Nature Physics, which covers disciplines in which LaTeX use is widespread, the editors are more flexible about document formatting. “LaTeX is just something that physicists ‘do’,” explains chief editor Andrea Taroni. “Trying to get them to do otherwise is like trying to herd cats.”
Everything that was done here can be done in MS Word. There would be rare occasions where only Latex will do.
In my experience it is easier to write in LaTeX. The code for the content and the code for the styles is separate. So I can focus better on the content of the paper on I have finished writing the boilerplate for the formatting. Much easier than MS Word where content and formatting is done together.
On top of that institutions/clients often have their own templates which makes things infinitely easier.
I watched the full video and I appreciate my word doc despite the fact it drives me crazy sometimes 😂
This is very useful
Love the videos! Just wanted to let you know that sometimes the audio gets distorted/crunchy (I think due to the sensitivity of the mic?)
I may actually give it a chance. I'm sick of Word haha
Very useful videos
Just now I am writting my thesis using LaTex (Overleaf). LaTeX is a powerful techinique to waste time... Try to use quotation marks, for exemple, and all things like that. Making tables is the hell and so on. Not a simple text editor to master...
Hi, first of all a tone of thanks for making this playlist on LATEX. As a beginner I am absolutely able to follow what you are saying. In this part of the video at 13:29 I tried putting a * like so: \include*{Chapter3-Conclusion} --> On compiling the Conclusion section disappears completely. I tried to put a * in the conlusion.tex file like so: \chapter{Conclusion} --> That didnt help either. Could you please let me know the solution?
If Joel Haver made a tutorial
Could you please explain the benefits of Latex over MS word?
Hi, tracks change is not on for free
I do not need to watch this video to know, that he is right. Why?
Short answer, why isn't it possible to write (stable) texts with "Word" ? If you could do so, it would have been named "Text".
Longer answer: i do not know another affordable text system, thats so powerfull and stable at one time. The way getting into it may be a bit steep, but other as Word it shows you any mistake from beginning. Word is able to show your early mistake one day before you have the deadline, with no chance to recover it! Even my former girlfriend, who was the opposite of a techie, switched from word to LaTeX in a social topic, after she experienced problems with the bibliography. Before you ask, she is my wife now. I never stopped using LaTex, even as a teacher. Now i use it to do develop my ads and write a novel.
Tipp: use a successfull example as frame for your own thesis, if you are a beginner. That lets you get up the first steeo way by an elevator.
I use the Windows Version of LaTeX, i find it very comfortable in combination with WinEdt, the best editor i have ever seen.
how are you i want to know how to create a table signe of a function with overleaf i can’t do this it’ s possible
wish i could have referenced this a year ago lmao
I'd love to have a PhD from the University of UA-cam lol
The most prestigious university in the world lol!
I clicked on this although I probably will never go to university, and I have to admit: my uneducated ass always understands "feces" instead of "thesis", which quite frankly I think is hilarious :D
LaTex. What a noob. I wrote my thesis in machine language.
Grad students! Professor here. Please focus on content, and stop wasting time learning LaTex to perfection.
Try say something that will truly excite the minds of people around you. If you do that, then if you want to write your entire thesis in pencil, I am fine with that too.
Wrote my thesis two years ago...and it's funny how much similar my latex is built up.
Few tips after reviewing my latex document, feel free to use them (I know some of them might be included in upcoming videos):
- I recommend making a folder for each chapter and it this folder a figures/images/whatever folder together with the tex file of the chapter. This way it's easier to preview images for a certain chapter. Otherwise the list gets so long you can search for a long time searching for a particular file name. Also it allows to easily extract a single chapter if you want to include it into another document (e.g. if your start with your PhD afterwards and a chapter of your thesis will be a chapter of your PhD as well).
-Make at least two versions of compilable documents, one for publishing online without empty pages (oneside), and one for printing (twoside, \cleardoublepage after each chapter to get the begin of the chapter always on an odd page). You can normally use the same "main" section and include it in both versions to keep them in sync with the latest version (\cleardoublepage will be ignored for oneside), and the beginning you make different (Documentclass parameters, extra white pages). With this technique of including the same main you can easily make more variations if wanted (e.g. a version with extened abstract and one without, make one for different page sizes, make a black and white variant for alpha versions, etc.)
-Use \afterpage{\blankpage} if you want to add blank pages (For printed version handy at some places, you don't want to add blank pages manually and risking to forget this or mess it up or have to do this for each copy you print. Also always include 2 blank pages at once if you print twoside, as this is 1 blank page when printing.
-You can use \pagenumbering{gobble} for everything before the main section, this wil be numbered then in Roman numbers. Reset to latin after the table of contents with \setcounter{page}{1}. It's imho nicer when your main book starts again at page 1.
-Put your settings and usepackages and similar things in a separate file (it's quite basic in the video, it will get messier often in real life) (and use \include to include it in the mains). The mains will stay very clean this way.
-If you get a template for a titlepage of your university in Word and there is not latex template (or you have difficulties with the latex template to be compatible with your latex document for some reason): you can still use it, just make the page, create a pdf of it and include the pdf. The one annoying thing about it is when you have to fill in a date of handing in, then you need to do this last minute...but 9/10 this is the due date you fill in there ;)
> _-Put your settings and usepackages and similar things in a separate file (it's quite basic in the video, it will get messier often in real life) (and use \include to include it in the mains). The mains will stay very clean this way_
thanks for this (:
You might want to check this out ua-cam.com/video/y6lgxTomWdM/v-deo.html
TIP: Just adding \after{\blankpage} wont work for inserting a blank page, you need \usepackage{afterpage} and then:
ewcommand\blankpage{%
ull
\thispagestyle{empty}%
\addtocounter{page}{-1}%
ewpage}
in the preamble
For the titlepage custom template: I had a Word version of it, saved as .pdf, cropped the white spaces on the sides using an online free tool, then added in latex as follows:
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\thispagestyle{empty} %suppress page number
\includegraphics[scale=1]{YourTemplate}
\afterpage{
ull\thispagestyle{empty}\clearpage} %add a blank page after
\end{center}
Rather than having an article class you can have a report class. And with a report class you have chapters. Each chapter then starts on its own page.
First year engineering student here. Getting in the habit of using TeX early and my lecturers seem to appreciate it. Sure, it takes a little more effort to finish a write up, but having consistent style throughout everything I do means that when I start revising, I can easily switch between documents and have the same layout. Also, writing equations feels so much more streamlined than say, Microsoft Word.
When I was in Mech-E classes, it was required for pre-lab reports. You get used to it after awhile.
you can actually input formulas using latex in word
I had a choice of using Microsoft Word or Latex for my thesis in 1990, 32 years ago. I chose Microsoft Word - it was easier, faster and I don't regret it. The compilation time for Latex was terrible and the effort to view my document was horrendous. My thesis was full of very complex algebra and calculus - the Microsoft formula editor was fantastic and instant. Footnotes, index, cross-references, appendices, formatting, styles : it was all there and easy and obvious. I think it's just like the Apple-Microsoft battle - it's just a choice.
@@idjles in 1992/3 I wrote my final year project in WordPerfect, I’d never heard of LaTeX at the time. I was studying Biochemistry so LaTeX possibly wouldn’t have been as useful as if I’d been studying maths or physics. Were I doing it now I would, however, be using LaTeX due to the number of graphs I had and access to Chemtex for molecular structures. There’s also the fact that now there are a lot of add on tools that pretty much plugin (e.g. Mendeley and Zotero for reference management) and libraries of LaTeX fragments that mean you can pretty much just download stuff that I had to create from scratch.
As a mechanical engineer you already have a leg up on your peers if you know latex! Many don’t and it shows. I have a math degree and I’m undergrad I thought my aeronautical engineer friend to use latex and all of her professors loved her lol
Oooh Man, I turned a blind eye to Latex, after I watched some videos to other instructors.. Once I watched this video, I realized, that I have missed too much.. Thanks so much
we have a convert lol!
I should be done writing my thesis, but here I am three weeks before my defense date, writing and shifting what I have from word to LaTeX. I don't know how I could've completed two years of a master's in physics using just word, but I'm glad that I have this video to get by. Thank you so much, Trefor!
How is it going one week before? 😀😀
@@Elbrunosh how was it ?
update?
lol did i write this comment late at night on an alt account?
@@PrototypeHQ1 Successfully written and defended! Wasn't my best work, and I wasn't all too happy with the final product, but it's complete and I'm proud of it. I'll live to plan better for my Ph.D. Thanks for asking guys :)
On my university LaTeX was mandatory for master thesis. Our facility even had its own template. At first it quite difficulty, but later on you start to appreciate it. To this day I still use LaTeX for my resume
I did my undergraduate final project in LaTex and I loved it, no headaches with the bibliography or the table of contents or the formulas. I even got an honorable mention! Totally recommend it. (Btw my career is software engineering)
Someone will have headaches trying to fix errors in other things. And after one minute of compilation, Overleaf breaks.
@@fabiolimadasilva3398 didn’t have that much headaches ☺️ would’ve done the same all over again
@@ErikaAlejandraGonzalez Oi, Erika! Eu estou tendo muitas dificuldades. Parar a cada momento para pesquisar no Google como se faz um comando é muito estressante. Minha tese já passou das 200 páginas e fui obrigado a comprar uma assinatura de 15 dólares para aumentar o tempo de compilação. A única vantagem que vejo é o fato do LaTex atualizar o sumário, a relação de figuras, etc. AUTOMATICAMENTE. No mais perde-se muito com coisas desnessárias. I BEG YOUR PARDON FOR WRITTING IN PORTUGUESE. I JUST WOKE UP AND THE ENGLISH BUTTON IN MY BRAIN DOESN´T WORK WELL...
I'm doing my undergrad project in software engineering this year too and our professors made us learn LaTeX ahead of time for it.
@@setherine9071 Great decision! It was great in terms of the bibliography citation, list of contents and esthetically features, such as pagination, margins, etc. Once you get used to LaTex, you realize is much easier than MS Word and you will do everything there haha
Hello
Thank you Dr for your beautiful videos.
I would like to ask you if we can get access to the Latex files in your videos?
Regards
As a former LaTeX addict, my advice is: DON'T. 🤣
lmao:D
Wow! I can't believe how short it is. My meteorology PhD thesis was just over 300 pages long. I guess if you prove something mathematically, you don't need a lot of waffle! I wrote my thesis in Latex, and I thought it was fairly simple. Trying to get figures and captions and references to work in Microsoft Word is horrendous!
Ya it just totally depends what you are doing. Some math PhDs definitely will be far longer, but others not. I have a rather infamous six month portion of my life that contributed to a half page:D
yeah, MS office sucks all time - the MS word sucks, MS powerpoint sucks, MS access sucks.
@@yash1152 Except it doesn't really. If you have a good template, it's super easy to use. Plus collaboration is much easier than in Latex.
I have been taken shelter in Microsoft Word. Oh, it is really a mind-blowing video. I say bye to office.
Hello! Thank you so much for this video. I'm glad you're covering this topic at more length.
I'm getting a mathematics degree, so I'm sure you can imagine how useful this is for me. Your first video regarding the subject and your great ability to convey meaning was the nail in the coffin for me to actually start learning Latex. Now I'm quite obsessed; I even wrote a presentation (for which, one traditionally uses slides) on Dedekind Cuts using Latex, and it looked more like a paper than a presentation. I have no regrets.
On a side note, learning Latex made learning Python more comprehensible for me as I had no prior experience writing "codes" beforehand.
My point is, thank you so much for your effort and wonderful teaching. It really did have an impact on someone's academic experience🌻
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i ain't doin all that bro f that
I already know how to use latex but I'm just keeping this for a reference in the near future hahaha
BY THE WAY you should do a tutorial with the command tabular, when I do a table with a lot of horizontal values, it looks well... Weird and I would like some tips to make it look better lol
Thank you for the video, I was really struggling with organizing the images of my thesis and I was starting to gave up. Until I ran into your video
This guy is like Daniel Shiffman's older brother, lol
Good stuff though
finally, was waiting for 100 years for this!!
haha ya took a long time to come out! Final LaTeX vid in the series should be out in just a few weeks though:)
Nice video, I think for PhD thesis also is important to know how to do figures (histogram, graph ..etc.) in pure latex using pgfplots ..and Gnuplot LATEX.
Great suggestion!
in my first year of studyung physics (2012) we were shown Latex by the profs in a short seminar to use it to write our essays etc. I haven't seen a single word page ever since. I don't understand a single person not using it.
Word has it's purposes. But it's not good a writing a thesis (or even papers).
Thank you so so much, I'm not into computer and coding but you make it really really easy for me to my write my thesis... yours teaching skills are great ..... may Allah bless you and grant you house in jannah... Ameen
I got the template from my teacher 4 years ago and since then I always used the same. I even recently wrote my Bachelor’s thesis with the same template.
thanks a lot sir, i got 1 credit from this video
Economics student here. I work a lot with statistical and econometric modelling in my term papers and research. Idek why I've never heard of LaTeX. It's much more convenient than MS Office or even Google Docs urggh. LaTeX makes a lot of sense. Writing many mathematical formulas on a MS Word file is such a hassle. Google Docs is even worse
I have a submission due tomorrow. Perfect timing.
I've been using LaTeX for years and thought I knew it, but I hadn't used it for large documents before writing my master thesis. Then I ran into quite a few problems and this video thaught me a lot of different nuances that makes the experience a lot smoother.
Damn, youtube recommending me this just when I need to start making arrangements for my thesis. I swear to god google infiltrates everything
Algorithms on point!
Amazing content, professor!.. looking forward to the video on packages!
Coming soon!
Jesus, does that still exist? How many decades of development effort and MSWord still cannot compete.
Yes!! The last video on Latex was sooo good. I can't wait to get stuck in to this one.
Super channel. Thanks for all the awesome videos
Yay! Thank you!
If you have some time to learn and a Unix-like system or WSL go for VIM+Latex+Git. You'll spend some time configuring and learning how to use everything but if you are patient you'll get a powerful tool you can use for free and with a faster flow. And not only for latex, you could use it eventually for any programming language also. A big learning curve but you won't need any other IDE again.
Hello Sir, I used latex on Windows (Texlive 2019). I am going to change it to MacOS (MacTex last version), But my previous latex in windows cannot run on MacOS. How to fix this problem? Thank you so much.
Lol I just started using latex for fun a few days ago and then this video comes out
ha the UA-cam algorithm gods know everything!
Type everything in MS Word & Mathtype. Then hit a convert button to produce that horrible incomprehensible useless TeX/LaTeX garbage.
just need to start my BSc Thesis and will go on with an research masters afterwards.. so probably something to look in thanks! btw does it also have a spellchecker for German build in? otherwise I need to fallback to vim and git :P
Check out language supports here: www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/International_language_support
@@DrTrefor thanks! Yea, I gave it a shot yesterday. Amazing and it also comes with optional vim keybindings. How could I not know about that.
Everyone, save time and just jump the bla bla bla propaganda about "I love overleaf...etc" because when a video is sponsored in this way does not give any credibility to the youtuber's talking. Just go straight to what matters...
I did everything you did but I am getting errors regarding the \cite{}. No matter what I do, my bibliography page shows nothing and citations are showing like [?] this. Help me if anyone can.
Wait, this isn't the latex content I was looking for...
Hi DrTrefor, when I used \include, the alignment of chapter changes in the main text. but it is fine in the chapter file. What can I do? Could you help?
So, how about you do it all according to APA 7th edition requirements. Because this is not what 'thesis' will look like. Sure, you made it overly simplistic and maybe that was your goal but then the title is misleading.
Thank you very much! You are amazing! Could you please inform me if it is safe to write unpublish papers in overleaf? Thank you in advance and congratulation for the video one more time!
Absolutely is safe!
@@DrTrefor Thank you very much!!!
First year engineering student here. Getting in the habit of using TeX early and my lecturers seem to appreciate it. Sure, it takes a little more effort to finish a write up, but having consistent style throughout everything I do means that when I start revising, I can easily switch between documents and have the same layout. Also, writing equations feels so much more streamlined than say, Microsoft Word.
Track Changes is a Premium feature, by the way
Yup, it's one of my favourites. Not necessary, but definitely nice.
The only way I will learn TeX/LaTeX is if somebody PAYS ME for MY time to learn it, and they personally tutor me on it.
This should be NO problem for the TeX/LaTeX fanatic, since for THEM spending millions of hours trying to figure out obscure code is a joy for them, rather than click and drag and getting on with the business of actually doing mathematics.
Omg I am just starting to write my thesis and your video is a lifesaver! Thank you soooo much! :) I have really enjoyed your video and I have learned so much! :D
I watched several videos on your channel. The problem is your video overlay. It is very distractive. It takes space on the screen. I had to look for another channel to get a better experience.
please make tutorial for how to make types of signature index for teachers on pages like one side signature at left or right, two signature index side by side etc
How to make these subfolders ( chapters) and include them in the main folder using TexMaker?
How many man years have been burned on MS Word finicky heading, captions and contents pages?
I had to learn all of this at Uni, luckily I could use word for my thesis. I mean what's the point? (I work with code)
We have LaTex as an elective course in the Bachelor's programme of physics Major in my University.
Initial learning curve is steep for me atleast. I am still struggling a lot but I am still enjoying it given the fact that LaTex gives us full freedom to customize documents and frees is from the limitations of word processors. Just a terminal along with a text editor and document viewer, and I am good to go
clicked for the u of t solidarity, stayed for the passion
lol awesome:D
I can't for the life of me get the page number to be on the bottom right side of every single page. I don't get why it has to be this difficult to change such a simple detail.
This is the longest of asking somebody to like and subscribe that I've ever met in youtube :D
I'm definitely going to use this since I already work my assignments on obsidian md already and it's easy to just move my stuff there
I must say, because of you i am now a believer of our lord and savior LaTeX, keep spreading the good word brother !
lmao praise be to LaTeX! :D
The dedication and the likes are not included in the table of contents. How can we do that please, because they also should be included?
Really a big thanku sir ...your video helped me and my classmate to make our master's thesis report 😀
Nice video! One thing I struggled with overleaf is when showing changes after review. Is there anyway to show changes without using the premium version?😅
I believe tracking changes is only a premium feature, but you can always do it the old fashion way of creating many versions of your files, one for each update.
How to reduce the vertical space from the top of the paper to and bottom of the chapter and section. Also how to reduce the vertical space between chapter and paragraph.
Really helpful video, now I'm just waiting for your next video.
Thank you so much! Will have another LaTeX video out soon:)
hi .. really liked you video. could you please upload a details video about font changing, page numbering, all these formatting stuffs.?
I have a third latex video coming out soon, I’ll try to include those:)
@@DrTrefor thanks for the reply... looking forward to it..
hello, i can't find a create new folder option, I can only create new tags. Any help?
At 7:46 I realized that this is useless to me. I'm in 9th grade. Why did that take me so long to realize?
I just needed this vid thanks
Dude why am I even watching this? I finished studying years ago :D
Hi, thank you for sharing your insights!!! My question is how is it possible to make the star in order to get the chapter without numeration on a mac 😂 Thank you for your help