My thank to www.overleaf.com for sponsoring today's video. I've used them for years prior to being sponsored and their cloud based LaTeX editor has so many useful free or premium features that just makes it easier to write a thesis.

First year engineering student here. Getting in the habit of using TeX early and my lecturers seem to appreciate it. Sure, it takes a little more effort to finish a write up, but having consistent style throughout everything I do means that when I start revising, I can easily switch between documents and have the same layout. Also, writing equations feels so much more streamlined than say, Microsoft Word.

Ulimate tip: Get the tex-file from somebody who recently published his thesis. Keep all the layout-config issues, try to successful run it on your tex system, just fill it with your content - in case you are not sure how to write a nice table, exotic equation, etc. there is a good chance your colleague already figured it out, otherwise it is 5min of google it.

Wrote my thesis two years ago...and it's funny how much similar my latex is built up. Few tips after reviewing my latex document, feel free to use them (I know some of them might be included in upcoming videos): - I recommend making a folder for each chapter and it this folder a figures/images/whatever folder together with the tex file of the chapter. This way it's easier to preview images for a certain chapter. Otherwise the list gets so long you can search for a long time searching for a particular file name. Also it allows to easily extract a single chapter if you want to include it into another document (e.g. if your start with your PhD afterwards and a chapter of your thesis will be a chapter of your PhD as well). -Make at least two versions of compilable documents, one for publishing online without empty pages (oneside), and one for printing (twoside, \cleardoublepage after each chapter to get the begin of the chapter always on an odd page). You can normally use the same "main" section and include it in both versions to keep them in sync with the latest version (\cleardoublepage will be ignored for oneside), and the beginning you make different (Documentclass parameters, extra white pages). With this technique of including the same main you can easily make more variations if wanted (e.g. a version with extened abstract and one without, make one for different page sizes, make a black and white variant for alpha versions, etc.) -Use \afterpage{\blankpage} if you want to add blank pages (For printed version handy at some places, you don't want to add blank pages manually and risking to forget this or mess it up or have to do this for each copy you print. Also always include 2 blank pages at once if you print twoside, as this is 1 blank page when printing. -You can use \pagenumbering{gobble} for everything before the main section, this wil be numbered then in Roman numbers. Reset to latin after the table of contents with \setcounter{page}{1}. It's imho nicer when your main book starts again at page 1. -Put your settings and usepackages and similar things in a separate file (it's quite basic in the video, it will get messier often in real life) (and use \include to include it in the mains). The mains will stay very clean this way. -If you get a template for a titlepage of your university in Word and there is not latex template (or you have difficulties with the latex template to be compatible with your latex document for some reason): you can still use it, just make the page, create a pdf of it and include the pdf. The one annoying thing about it is when you have to fill in a date of handing in, then you need to do this last minute...but 9/10 this is the due date you fill in there ;)

Oooh Man, I turned a blind eye to Latex, after I watched some videos to other instructors.. Once I watched this video, I realized, that I have missed too much.. Thanks so much

On my university LaTeX was mandatory for master thesis. Our facility even had its own template. At first it quite difficulty, but later on you start to appreciate it. To this day I still use LaTeX for my resume

I should be done writing my thesis, but here I am three weeks before my defense date, writing and shifting what I have from word to LaTeX. I don't know how I could've completed two years of a master's in physics using just word, but I'm glad that I have this video to get by. Thank you so much, Trefor!

HOW CAN I LIKE THIS VIDEO A MILLION TIMES! Thank you so much Dr. Trefor!

Omg I am just starting to write my thesis and your video is a lifesaver! Thank you soooo much! :) I have really enjoyed your video and I have learned so much! :D

Thank you for the video, I was really struggling with organizing the images of my thesis and I was starting to gave up. Until I ran into your video

I really love how you explain it all. Thank you for uploading such great content.

I love how much fun you have explaining it

You are enjoying teaching. It's gene wired skills and This is your strength . Many love what you are doing. Thank you .

I've been using LaTeX for years and thought I knew it, but I hadn't used it for large documents before writing my master thesis. Then I ran into quite a few problems and this video thaught me a lot of different nuances that makes the experience a lot smoother.

Thank you so much for this video. I was literally looking for one just three nights ago that shows how to do a thesis from scratch, and not just using templates. This is GREAT!

Thank you so so much, I'm not into computer and coding but you make it really really easy for me to my write my thesis... yours teaching skills are great ..... may Allah bless you and grant you house in jannah... Ameen

I wrote my thesis using LaTeX in Texmaker as a mechanical engineer. Thank you for this tutorial video, i think it can help a lot of people.

Hello! Thank you so much for this video. I'm glad you're covering this topic at more length. I'm getting a mathematics degree, so I'm sure you can imagine how useful this is for me. Your first video regarding the subject and your great ability to convey meaning was the nail in the coffin for me to actually start learning Latex. Now I'm quite obsessed; I even wrote a presentation (for which, one traditionally uses slides) on Dedekind Cuts using Latex, and it looked more like a paper than a presentation. I have no regrets. On a side note, learning Latex made learning Python more comprehensible for me as I had no prior experience writing "codes" beforehand. My point is, thank you so much for your effort and wonderful teaching. It really did have an impact on someone's academic experience🌻

I'm so glad I subbed back in Analysis 2, this is a gold mine.

I'm definitely going to use this since I already work my assignments on obsidian md already and it's easy to just move my stuff there

Thank Sir Bazett! You're my ultimate overleaf reference.👏👏👏

Yes!! The last video on Latex was sooo good. I can't wait to get stuck in to this one. Super channel. Thanks for all the awesome videos

finally, was waiting for 100 years for this!!

you made it look very easy, it was really entertaining. Thank you

I enjoy your style of explaining things

Damn! Prof. Trefor is back with a bam!!

Thank You, Dr.Bazett!!

I just needed this vid thanks

Amazing content, professor!.. looking forward to the video on packages!

Very informative video, nicely done!

Awesome video man :) I always had an ambivalent relationship with latex because many editors have really limited autocompletion abilities.

I have a submission due tomorrow. Perfect timing.

This is wonderful, Thanks a lot. Latex is awesome 🙂

Thank you very much professor I can't tell you how helpful your Latex tutorials are because if I go to search all these things by myself it would be very tough task to get all tricks that you're sharing with us.❤

So glad we were taught how to use Latex as a first year in my physics undergrad course 👌🏻

i love this, thank you very much

Want to thank you so much for making this video. I tried writing the first 20 pages of my dissertation in Word but it was terrible; text boxes disappearing just to reappear out of thin air later when pictures were imported, page breaks happening where they shouldn't be, etc. It was driving me crazy. LaTeX is so much better and I thank you for making this initially daunting package easy to understand.

I did my undergraduate final project in LaTex and I loved it, no headaches with the bibliography or the table of contents or the formulas. I even got an honorable mention! Totally recommend it. (Btw my career is software engineering)

Nice one, thanks!

Excellent. Really good video & addresses many queries

You saved my life. Thank you for this video

I really hope to use your video very soon (as soon I can get results to write my PhD thesis). Thanks!!!

Finally. Thanks so much for this video.

Went thru university with this tool. used terminal and modem from home. no $$$ for 486 machine. made me learn unix and still used today.

I got the template from my teacher 4 years ago and since then I always used the same. I even recently wrote my Bachelor’s thesis with the same template.

Wonderful tutorial

This is the video I've been needing

We have LaTex as an elective course in the Bachelor's programme of physics Major in my University. Initial learning curve is steep for me atleast. I am still struggling a lot but I am still enjoying it given the fact that LaTex gives us full freedom to customize documents and frees is from the limitations of word processors. Just a terminal along with a text editor and document viewer, and I am good to go

So Amazing Tutorial.

Really helpful video, now I'm just waiting for your next video.

Thank you so much :))

Back in 1981, my Masters was written using QED line editor and ROFF text formatter on a Honeywell mainframe. It was all about words!

Really a big thanku sir ...your video helped me and my classmate to make our master's thesis report 😀

Thanks a lot for the explanation!!! That's awesome use latex!!

Thank you , it was helpful for me

Thank you!!

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Great job many thanks!

It's great job, go ahead Dr this is one of very useful program for anyone study Mathematics.

Super AMAZING!!

Just discovered your channel and I love your videos, subbed

This video is a lifesaver 😎

You're the best!

Thanks Trever this is amazing! Just a tiny nit: You can do a little color correction in post production to make the green-screen video blend in more with the screen recording.

This is very useful

Thank u so much sir

Thanks alot sir for this!!!!!

It is really amazin!!!! Many thanks for this compelling video!!! Really usefull.

Heheh I had to do that as well for my group theory thesis (Sylow Theorems) .used overleaf! It was super easy and the best thing was to share it with my advisor! Great video! I think for Math/ Stat latex is a must and it looks so much professionally done vs word which is so yucky!!

Love the videos! Just wanted to let you know that sometimes the audio gets distorted/crunchy (I think due to the sensitivity of the mic?)

You are great!

thank you so much

good, realy your explanation is very clear

Great tutorial! Now as a chemistry majored I'll go figure out how to draw chemical graphics :)

Nice video, I think for PhD thesis also is important to know how to do figures (histogram, graph ..etc.) in pure latex using pgfplots ..and Gnuplot LATEX.

Thank you sir

I am watching this vid in Robert library thank you, Dr. Trefor.

Excelente! Muchas gracias

This seems very useful for someone in electrical engineering

Hi, I"m writing my Master Project report in Overleaf. But while referencing I am getting this message "Citation on page XXX undefined on input line XXX" But my citation is correctly defined in the bib file and correctly mention in the place where I'm citing. Moreover, the first citation is correct but the following ones are having this 'undefined' error. What could be the possible solution in this regard? Thanks.

Overleaf for life

I already know how to use latex but I'm just keeping this for a reference in the near future hahaha BY THE WAY you should do a tutorial with the command tabular, when I do a table with a lot of horizontal values, it looks well... Weird and I would like some tips to make it look better lol

Hi DrTrefor, when I used \include, the alignment of chapter changes in the main text. but it is fine in the chapter file. What can I do? Could you help?

You can start by using Lyx as a bridge

thank you verry much man

Ok is there a way to save it as a word doc. without messing up the format? I saved it as pdf and when I convert the pdf to word doc. the format changes

hello, i can't find a create new folder option, I can only create new tags. Any help?

thanks a lot sir, i got 1 credit from this video

Very useful videos

I did everything you did but I am getting errors regarding the \cite{}. No matter what I do, my bibliography page shows nothing and citations are showing like [?] this. Help me if anyone can.

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HAHAHA, my thesis is due in 2 weeks for my undergraduate honours project and I was just going to procrastinate. But you remind me of that with the title. Thank you!

i wonder more about with what screen cast software were these videos made, very powerful.

I tried the Appendix command and the results were not the same as you presented. My appendix output is ".1 Appendix". It did not convert to alpha. Any suggestions?

Hello Thank you Dr for your beautiful videos. I would like to ask you if we can get access to the Latex files in your videos? Regards

How to make these subfolders ( chapters) and include them in the main folder using TexMaker?

Is there a tutorial on transferring your thesis from Word to LaTex? I've only just begun to explore but have been using word up to this point

Thank u

Hi.. I have one question if you could please address regarding the \include command you discussed at 9:13 in the video! How to add a small abstract between the Chapter~1 and TouTube Buttons (at 9:48)? Thanks for the lucid video!

Thank you for this clear explanation! Only when I was trying to type my abstract all my text turned green after I used the % sign, how do I prevent this from happening? Because I do like to use this sign in my abstract