Our first personal and professional development workshop of the year was a collaboration with the newly reinvigorated WPI chapter of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). AWM created a handwritten worksheet that served as a basis for the workshop; the goal was to, in learning how to typeset in LaTeX, reproduce the content of the worksheet. Tyler Mitchell, the president of the SIAM chapter this year, led the Overleaf-based LaTeX tutorial to an audience of about a dozen students.
We had a lot to cover and not enough time to cover it all! Below, we provide the slides and files from the workshop for further reference. As stated above, we aimed to reproduce the handwritten document (containing five sections and a panoply of mathematics) in Overleaf. The presentation slides walk consecutively through the main environments and functions needed for the reproduction.
- Handwritten document (PDF)
- Typed document produced in Overleaf (PDF)
- Main .tex file (Text Document/Notepad, download)
- Bibliography (.bib) file (Text Document/Notepad, download)
- Figure (PNG)
- Presentation slides (PDF)
Note that the typesetting provided is not the be-all and end-all; there is more than one way to create the document in LaTeX, depending on the packages and environments you favor. (Derivatives, for example, are nicely produced using the physics package, but the .tex file linked does not have this package added. Instead, it uses basic fractions to build the derivative notation.)
For additional resources and details on other functionalities in Overleaf/LaTeX, the following resources, compiled by AWM VP Mia Zheng, may be instructive:
- LaTeX Tutorials (Overleaf) – Lots of hyperlinks and resources all compiled together
- LaTeX – Full Tutorial for Beginners (freeCodeCamp.org) – A four-hour long video that is very comprehensive and beginner-friendly (doesn’t skip steps)
