Paul Sutton

Overleaf

Collaboration with Overleaf

I attended the Overleaf Effective Collaboration webinar on Wednesday 20th May. This proved, once again to be very informative, useful and complements the other webinars nicely.

This webinar, specifically covered the features available to the different users of the system, the main difference with the free accounts includes the number of user who can collaborate and version history tracking.

I recently came across an excellent Overleaf curated article / report from 2017 on The Connected Culture of Collaboration Report

The document (pdf) can be downloaded free from the website and there is a citation guide too, if this is needed for your own articles or papers.

The webinar will be available on demand in due course.

References

#LaTeX, #overleaf, #collaboration, #report, #digital, #science,#writing,#publishing

More Trinket Coding

Trinket is a web based development platform. One of it's features is the programming language blocks, which is in fact a block based front end and creates Python programs.

I am sharing these on my blog today, even though I also shared earlier in the week on LinkedIn and also on Twitteras part of the Paignton Library Virtual Code Club.

Drawing a circle

circle1

And the associated output

circle1

Drawing a star

star1

And the associated output

star2

I am working on a book to update my previous Nested loops guide I wrote a few years ago. This needed updating anyway so it would cover Scratch 3.0. This book / guide is work in progress, and will be typeset in $\LaTeX$ using Overleaf

#programming, #trinket, #Blocks, #python, #WebIDE, #LaTeX, #Overleaf, #nestedloops, #loops, #codeclub

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Overleaf Webinar

Teaching with Overleaf webinar – Thurs 2 April 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM BST-

covering:

  • How to create a project template;
  • sharing that project with your students;
  • best practices for organizing projects
  • providing feedback on student projects.

Hope you can join us -

https://bit.ly/33OR2w5

I attended the first webinar on Tuesday 31st March This gave a brief introduction to Overleaf. Very well presented and easy to follow.

Follow Overleaf on Twitter at @overleaf

#AcademicChatter, #overleaf,#latex, #webinar, #teaching

JabRef Update

Not quite following on from my previous post The JabRef bibliography software has been updated.

JabRef is a bibliography manager, to help make .bib files easier to create and manage. It should be possible to upload the output .bib file to Overleaf too.

  • Screenshots from Jabref 3.8.2

jabref1

jabref2

References

There is a #latex channel on the Freenode IRC network.

#LaTeX, #bibliography, #manager, #software, #windows, #linux, #apple, #overleaf, #ctan,#tex-live,#overleaf, #jabref,#references,

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$\LaTeX$ Letters

In Overleaf, I have used a template letter file with an empty letter body area (or at least minimal). Copying this to a new file, keeps the original body empty for new files.

I have also created letters and letters-sent folders. This helps keep track of which letters are work in progress and which letters have been sent.

Once saved as pdf you can also attach to a e-mail if you wish to send a letter that way.

Use % at the start of a line (for example for the enclosures) to make the line a comment, if you are enclosing anything this can be put back in by removing the % from the start.

Using % makes that line a comment

$\LaTeX$ templates is a really useful website has templates that can help get you started.

I actually feel fairly confident that I could teach or run small workshops to introduce $\LaTeX$ to students but would expect to be paid.

#LaTeX, #typesetting, #documents, #text, #wysiwym, #sharelatex, #overleaf, #ctan, #texstudio, #templates, #letters

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