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Hello, and welcome to getting started

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with LaTeX. This tutorial will walk you

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through creating your first document

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using the LaTeX

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system. Alright, so what is LaTeX? LaTeX

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is a typesetting system commonly used

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for technical and scientific

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documents. It's widely used throughout

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the world of academia specifically in

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engineering and science fields. This is

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due to how easy LaTeX makes it for someone

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to include complex mathematical

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equations, models and more. Most documents

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written in math or physics courses here

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at Bucknell are written using

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LaTeX. Throughout this tutorial we'll be

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utilizing a free LaTeX editor called

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Overleaf which is available online at

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overleaf.com. All right, so let's set up

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an editor. We'll start by going to

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Overleaf and signing in. If you don't

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have an account, register using your

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school provided Google

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account. Once you see this page, click the

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create a new project button and select

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blank project. You'll be sent to the

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Overleaf editor. This is where we'll be

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working on our documents. The editor has

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three main segments: the file selector,

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code editor, and preview pane. When

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editing code, you'll need to hit the

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recompile button to see changes on the

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preview

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pane. Let's talk about some commonly used

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tags. We begin with the title, author, and

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date tags. These specify important

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information about the document and their

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specifics are

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self-explanatory. Next we have the begin

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tag which tells the compiler to start

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building the document

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itself. The make title tag tells the

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compiler to format and display the title

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information including the author and the

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date. The section tag signifies the

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beginning of a section and produces a

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numbered section heading.

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Next we'll talk about tags that can be

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used to format text. The textbf tag

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makes text appear bold. The textit tag

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makes text appear

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italicized. The underline tag makes text

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appear underlined. The emph tag emphasizes a

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specific block of text. The appearance of

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this effect depends on the situation. If

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the text being emphasized is within a

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block of standard text, it will be

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italicized. Otherwise, if that selected

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text block is within other italicized

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text, it will be

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de-italicized. These effects can be

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combined within the same line. For

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example, this line of code will italicize

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the selected text as well as keep the

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surrounding text

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bold. Next we'll talk about displaying

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math within a LaTeX document. Math

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equations can be displayed in two modes:

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inline mode and display mode.

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Starting with inline mode, we use the

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begin math and end math tags to specify

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where an equation is written. This method

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places an equation inline, meaning that

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it will wrap as if it was part of the

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paragraph, blending with the surrounding

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text. On the other hand, we can use

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display mode which uses the begin

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equation and end equation tags to

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distinguish equations from text.

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This will display math as if it's its

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own line in a paragraph and can be used

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to separate equations from the rest of

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the

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text. Now we'll put it all together.

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Here's an example of a document, this one

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being the script for this video. Notice

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how the title, author, and date tags are

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used as well as the section headers. The

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title, author, and date are formatted in

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the center of the page

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automatically with text sizes being

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decided by the compiler. The section

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headings are automatically numbered and

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bolded and create coherent paragraphs

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with minimal effort. As you can see, the

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LaTeX system allows for an author to

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create a document without focusing on

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its formatting as one would see with

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other what-you-see-is-what-you-get

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editors such as Microsoft Word or Google

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Docs. Instead, the author can focus on the

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content knowing that the content will be

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presented in a coherent way that makes

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sense to the reader. When you're done

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writing the document or making any edits

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to it, you can click the recompile button

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and that will display a preview in the

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preview pane. When you want to download

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or export the document, click the

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download button next to the recompile

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button. That will export a PDF file and

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send it to your downloads

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folder. And that's it! Congratulations,

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you've just finished your first LaTeX

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document. I hope you've been able to

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learn from this video and you'll be able

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to recreate a LaTeX document whenever

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you need. Thank you for watching.