For anyone interested , here is an introduction to Overleaf, the online, collaborative \LaTeX\ editor.
@zleap I love their guides. I starting using #LaTeX on my Calc tests in the online course. I’m currently reading through their LaTex in 30 min guide now. Hopefully this video can teach me about the platform itself!
https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Learn_LaTeX_in_30_minutes
@derickflorian We have a chem student at the STEM group, going to try and introduce her to \LaTeX\ as it makes typesetting chemistry and documents so much easier.
@derickflorian TexLive is worth downloading for the package manuals.
You bet! I use it to produce nicely drawn circuit diagrams for my hardware class.
For anyone interested
CircuiTikz package
https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/CircuiTikz_package
Try doing all this in Word, I would rather jump off a cliff, than struggle
I need to get my head round Tikz, but at least we know it does the job really well.
@JensHannemann do you use the same package for the diagrams you make?
That’s so cool @zleap! That is something will be useful when I do take my circuit analysis classes down the road.
No problem, it is good to share these resources, especially if useful.
@zleap @derickflorian And if you’re obsessed with units (hey, I’m a metric expat living in a non-metric country), I recommend the siunitx package.
Ah yea I have a blog post somewhere showing how to write Greek characters using $\LaTeX\$
@derickflorian @zleap Yep, CircuiTikZ is where it’s at!
@zleap I can imagine that would make everything a breeze after fumbling around for a little bit. The learning curve has been worth it so far for me!
I installed LiveTex so I could export LaTeX documents made in vs code. There were 4.4K packages it installed so I imagine there is something for every specialty. :)