See the reference guide for a schematic description of commands and output formats.Ī description of each output format is provided below: There are some additional commands that allow conversion between formats, PS images are also supported.
Latex mydocument.tex This will create "mydocument.dvi", a DVI document pdflatex mydocument.tex This will generate "mydocument.pdf", a PDF document To generate a specific output the document has to be compiled by running a command in a terminal (Linux and macOS) or the command prompt (windows).įor example, if you want to compile a file named "mydocument.tex" you can use one of the next commands: There are three output formats available in all T eX distributions. You can find these settings by clicking on the Overleaf menu icon, above the file list panel in your Overleaf project. It is also themeable, so you can choose the same syntax highlighting of some of the aforementioned editors. It's worth to mention that the editor in Overleaf can be customized to emulate the emacs or vim behaviour.
For example the well known editors emacs and vim have both a LaTeX extension, as do Atom, VS Code and Sublime Text. There are also general-purpose editors that add L aT eX-friendly options by means of plugins. Proprietary/Shareware: Inlage, Scientific WorkPlace, WinEdt.
There are many advanced text editors specifically dedicated to L aT eX for the most popular operating systems, some of them can be downloaded for free while others are proprietary software: Of course, if you don't want to go through the process of installing a T eX distribution, you can use an on-line ready to use option like Overleaf.