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Introduction to Overleaf and Mendeley

FTI Research Workshop

Moeljono Widjaja, PhD.

Universitas Multimedia Nusantara

Jl. Scientia Boulevard, Gading Serpong
Tangerang, Banten-15811 Indonesia

24 July 2020

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Schedule

1 Introduction
Advantages LaTeX over MS Word
LaTeX at A Glance

2 Mendeley: Online Reference Manager

3 LaTeX Editors
Overleaf: Online LaTeX Editor

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Introduction

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What is LaTeX?

LATEX was originally written by Leslie Lamport1 .

A document preparation system used for the communication and publication of
scientific documents
A markup level text editing tool that separates the word formatting from the
content entry task
One of the most commonly used text editor in the academia (having to deal with
scientific papers and publishing)
Mathematical equations are exceptionally handled by these editors and they were
the primary reasons leading to its development in the first place

1 Leslie Lamport. LaTeX - A Document Preparation System: User’s Guide and Reference Manual. 2nd. 1994, pp. 1–272. ISBN:
978-0-201-52983-8. URL: https://dblp.org/rec/books/daglib/0023602.
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Advantages LaTeX over MS Word

Advantages LaTeX over MS Word I

LaTeX does have it advantages over WYSIWYG editors2 , including:

The structure is separated from the presentation.
If you lots of pages filled with text, pictures, graph, etc. in a WYSIWYG editor, it
will slow down your work speed and eventually get really slow.
LaTeX is written in plain text, so it is easier to collaborate with others (Version
control like Subversion, etc.)
It have lots of packages available, including packages for making charts, chemical
equations, and at lot of other stuff! (go to Comprehensive TeX Archive Network for
more information)
As mentioned earlier, LaTeX is written in plain text (which .doc(x) files are not),
which gives you the opportunity to repair broken files.
LaTeX is timeless. If you find LaTeX from the 90’s, you are probably able to
compile anyway.
And another thing, that I do not think has been mentioned is the ability to make
comments in the source code. This gives you the opportunity to explain something
that would have relevance to someone looking at the source code, but not at the
final document.

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Advantages LaTeX over MS Word

Advantages LaTeX over MS Word II

LaTeX makes more convenient to make a consistent document. You can use your
time on the content, and LaTeX will pretty much do the rest. Unless told otherwise
of course.
LaTeX handles mathematical formulas great.
UPDATE: LaTeX is also platform independent, meaning that you edit LaTeX on
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

2 What are the benefits of using LaTeX over a traditional WYSIWYG editor? - Quora. URL:
https://www.quora.com/What- are- the- benefits- of- using- LaTeX- over- a- traditional- WYSIWYG- editor.
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Advantages LaTeX over MS Word

LaTeX vs. MS Word

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LaTeX at A Glance

LaTeX at A Glance

LaTeX documentclass options3 :

\documentclass[option1, option2, etc.]{article|book|letter|beamer}

Font size (10pt, 11pt, 12pt)

Paper size and format (a4paper, letterpaper, etc.)
Draft mode (draft)
Multiple columns (onecolumn, twocolumn)
Formula-specific options (fleqn and leqno)
Landscape print mode (landscape)
Single- and double-sided documents (oneside, twoside)
Titlepage behavior (notitlepage, titlepage)
Chapter opening page (openright, openany)

3 Tom. LaTeX documentclass options illustrated. 2013. URL:

https://texblog.org/2013/02/13/latex- documentclass- options- illustrated/.
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LaTeX at A Glance

The Simplest LaTeX Document

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

Your texts are written here.

\end{document}

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LaTeX at A Glance

LaTeX templates in Some Scientific Publications

Papers in Conference proceedings or Journals

Student’s thesis (Laporan Skripsi)
Open access journal https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9105001
Telkomnika http://journal.uad.ac.id/index.php/TELKOMNIKA

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Mendeley: Online Reference Manager

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Mendeley

Mendeley Reference manager:

Web Importer
Citation Plugin
Mendeley Desktop
Library in the cloud
Group Library (shared publicly or privately)

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LaTeX Editors

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Some LaTeX Editors

LaTeX editors:
Desktop versions:
TexMaker - https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/
LyX - https://www.lyx.org/Home
TexStudio - http://www.texstudio.org/
Online versions:
LaTeX Base - https://latexbase.com/
Papeeria - https://papeeria.com/landing
Authorea - https://www.authorea.com/
Sharelatex
Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/

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Overleaf: Online LaTeX Editor

Overleaf

Features of Overleaf:
Spell check: English, Indonesian, etc.
Review
Shared documents (online collaborative writing)
History
Synchronize to Dropbox, Git and GitHub
Synchronize to Mendeley (reference manager)
Varieties of templates are available: academic journal, formal letter, poster, lab
report, thesis, presentation, etc.

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Overleaf: Online LaTeX Editor

References

Lamport, Leslie. LaTeX - A Document Preparation System: User’s Guide and Ref-
erence Manual. 2nd. 1994, pp. 1–272. ISBN: 978-0-201-52983-8. URL: https://
dblp.org/rec/books/daglib/0023602.
Tom. LaTeX documentclass options illustrated. 2013. URL: https://texblog.
org/2013/02/13/latex-documentclass-options-illustrated/.
What are the benefits of using LaTeX over a traditional WYSIWYG editor? - Quora.
URL : https : / / www . quora . com / What - are - the - benefits - of - using -
LaTeX-over-a-traditional-WYSIWYG-editor.

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Overleaf: Online LaTeX Editor

Thank you

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