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• Copying a project
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• Using the Overleaf project menu
• Including images in Overleaf
• Exporting your work from Overleaf
• Working offline in Overleaf
• Using Track Changes in Overleaf
• Using bibliographies in Overleaf
• Sharing your work with others
• Using the History feature
• Debugging Compilation timeout errors
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LaTeX Basics

• Creating your first LaTeX document
• Choosing a LaTeX Compiler
• Paragraphs and new lines
• Bold, italics and underlining
• Lists
• Errors

Mathematics

• Mathematical expressions
• Subscripts and superscripts
• Brackets and Parentheses
• Matrices
• Fractions and Binomials
• Aligning Equations
• Operators
• Spacing in math mode
• Integrals, sums and limits
• Display style in math mode
• List of Greek letters and math symbols
• Mathematical fonts

Figures and tables

• Inserting Images
• Tables
• Positioning Images and Tables
• Lists of Tables and Figures
• Drawing Diagrams Directly in LaTeX
• TikZ package

References and Citations

• Bibliography management in LaTeX
• Bibliography management with biblatex
• Biblatex bibliography styles
• Biblatex citation styles
• Bibliography management with natbib
• Natbib bibliography styles
• Natbib citation styles
• Bibliography management with bibtex
• Bibtex bibliography styles

Languages

• Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using polyglossia and fontspec
• Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using babel and fontspec
• International language support
• Quotations and quotation marks
• Arabic
• Chinese
• French
• German
• Greek
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish

Document structure

• Sections and chapters
• Table of contents
• Cross referencing sections and equations
• Indices
• Glossaries
• Nomenclatures
• Management in a large project
• Multi-file LaTeX projects
• Hyperlinks

Formatting

• Lengths in LaTeX
• Headers and footers
• Page numbering
• Paragraph formatting
• Line breaks and blank spaces
• Text alignment
• Page size and margins
• Single sided and double sided documents
• Multiple columns
• Counters
• Code listing
• Code Highlighting with minted
• Using colours in LaTeX
• Footnotes
• Margin notes

Fonts

• Font sizes, families, and styles
• Font typefaces
• Supporting modern fonts with XƎLaTeX

Presentations

• Beamer
• Powerdot
• Posters

Commands

• Commands
• Environments

Field specific

• Theorems and proofs
• Chemistry formulae
• Feynman diagrams
• Molecular orbital diagrams
• Chess notation
• Knitting patterns
• CircuiTikz package
• Pgfplots package
• Typing exams in LaTeX
• Knitr
• Attribute Value Matrices

Class files

• Understanding packages and class files
• List of packages and class files
• Writing your own package
• Writing your own class
• Tips

Advanced TeX/LaTeX

• In-depth technical articles on TeX/LaTeX