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Your first LaTeX document in minutes, a step-by-step learning path, what to install (or not), the preamble, math, tables, figures, citations and reading the error log.

What 40 common LaTeX error messages mean and how to fix them: Undefined control sequence, Missing $ inserted, Missing \right. inserted, Runaway argument, Overfull \hbox and more.

Create stunning diagrams, graphs, and illustrations directly in your LaTeX documents with the powerful TikZ package.

Plot data and functions in LaTeX with pgfplots: line plots from coordinates and CSV files, function graphs, bar charts, legends and common errors.

Bold, italic and underlined text in LaTeX with \textbf, \textit, \emph and \underline, plus small caps, monospace, font sizes and the soul and ulem packages.

Control page layout in LaTeX with the geometry package. Set paper size, margins, headers, and landscape mode.

Write subscripts and superscripts in LaTeX for math, chemistry, and scientific notation with practical examples.

Bullet points and numbered lists in LaTeX with itemize, enumerate and description. Custom bullets, enumitem labels and spacing, inline lists and Beamer.

LaTeX document classes compared: article, report, book, KOMA-Script and memoir, and the options 12pt, a4paper, twoside, twocolumn, draft and landscape.

Make a title page in LaTeX: \title, \author, \date and \maketitle, the titlepage environment for custom designs with a logo, a thesis example and fixes.

Fonts in LaTeX: serif, sans serif and monospace families, \textsf and \sffamily, font packages like newtx and libertine, fontspec with XeLaTeX, and fixes.

Indent in LaTeX: the default first-line indent, \noindent, \parindent and parskip, \indent, hanging indents, indented blocks and tabs with \hspace.

LaTeX environments explained: \begin and \end, common environments, \newenvironment, a numbered example environment with amsthm, arguments and fixes.

LaTeX commands and macros: define your own with \newcommand, arguments and defaults, \renewcommand, \DeclareMathOperator, \def, and 40 common LaTeX codes.

Every common LaTeX symbol with its command and package: math operators, Greek letters, relations, logic and set symbols, arrows, brackets, special characters and big operators.

All 24 Greek letters in LaTeX with uppercase, variants and Unicode, \epsilon vs \varepsilon, lambda, bold and upright Greek, plus every common math symbol.

Add colors to your LaTeX documents with the xcolor package. Text color, backgrounds, custom colors, and color mixing.

Draw a box around text with \fbox and \framebox: fixed widths and alignment, empty boxes and checkboxes for forms, multi-line boxes with \parbox and minipage, \boxed equations and colored frames.

Inline math with $...$ and \(...\), display math with \[...\] and equation, why $$ is discouraged, \text in math, fractions, roots and common math errors.

Write piecewise functions in LaTeX with \begin{cases} (amsmath): \text{if} conditions, dcases for full-size fractions, right braces, numbering and fixes.

Typeset integrals, sums (\sum), products and limits in LaTeX. From basic sigma notation to series, big operators and partial derivatives.

Matrices in LaTeX with amsmath: pmatrix and bmatrix, 2x2, 3x3 and 4x4 examples, determinants, inverse and transpose, augmented and block matrices.

Make tables in LaTeX and Overleaf with booktabs, multicolumn, multirow, longtable, row and column spacing, colored tables and a table generator.

Figures in LaTeX: \includegraphics with width and scale, the figure environment, [htbp] and [H] placement, captions, \label and \ref, wrapfig and errors.

LaTeX subfigures with the subcaption package: two figures side by side, a 2×2 grid, panel captions and labels, \ref and \subref, legacy subfig and fixes.

Two columns in LaTeX: the twocolumn option, the multicol package with \columnbreak and \columnsep, figure* across columns, and \multicolumn in tables.

Add footnotes in LaTeX with \footnote, put footnotes in tables and captions, use symbols instead of numbers, and style them with footmisc.

All 24 Greek letters in order with uppercase, lowercase, pronunciation, Unicode, math and science uses, and LaTeX commands.

APA 7 student and professional title pages: exact elements, formatting rules, worked examples, and the apa7 LaTeX class.

Clickable links in LaTeX with hyperref: \url, \href, email links, internal references, link colors, removing link boxes, and PDF metadata.

Single-line comments with %, block comments with the comment package and \iffalse, editor shortcuts, todonotes, and draft/final switches.

Roman and arabic page numbers, starting at a given page, removing the number on the title page, fancyhdr footers, "Page X of Y" and Beamer frame numbers.

\hrule, \rule and \hrulefill, partial and centred lines, colored and dashed rules, table rules with booktabs, header rules and signature lines.

The ``double'' and `single' convention, csquotes \enquote and \textquote, German and French quotes, quote and quotation environments, block quotes with attribution and Beamer.

Strike through text with ulem \sout and soul \st, cancel terms in math with the cancel package, cross out in tables and Beamer, and track changes.

Change font size in LaTeX: the ten size commands from \tiny to \Huge with exact point sizes, class options, extsizes, \fontsize, and sizes for captions, footnotes and headings.

Number, label and reference equations with \label, \eqref and cleveref, number per section, add custom tags, and break long equations with align, split and multline.

Print the reserved characters # $ % & _ { } ~ ^ \, the pipe, < and >, underscores in URLs and file names, inverted ?/!, degree, copyright and currency signs, and fix the errors they cause.

Every delimiter from ( ) to \langle \rangle, curly braces (accolades) in text, automatic sizing with \left \right, manual \big to \Bigg, matrix brackets, cases and \underbrace.

Underbrace in LaTeX: \underbrace{a+b}_{\text{sum}}, \overbrace with labels, nested and overlapping braces, \underset, \overset, \underbracket and errors.

New lines in equations, align math with align and align*, split, multline, gather and cases, nest aligned blocks, add text between lines, allow page breaks, and retire eqnarray.

The heading hierarchy per class, unnumbered sections that still appear in the TOC, secnumdepth and tocdepth, custom numbering, titlesec formatting, \appendix and hyperref links.

Appendix in LaTeX: \appendix for lettered sections and chapters, the appendix package, appendices in the table of contents, equation numbering and errors.

Code in LaTeX: lstlisting with language=Python, \lstinputlisting, \lstset styling, minted and -shell-escape, verbatim, \verb and \lstinline, plus errors.

Write pseudocode in LaTeX: algorithm with algpseudocode (\State, \If, \For), algorithm2e, the old algorithmic, line numbers, captions and errors.

Set up amsthm and \newtheorem, share theorem and lemma counters, write proofs, and set the end of proof symbol (∎) with \qedsymbol and \qedhere.

The glossaries package (\newacronym, \gls, \printglossaries, makeglossaries and latexmk), the simpler acronym package, nomencl for symbol lists, sorting and common errors.

\log, \ln, \exp and every predefined operator, argmax with \DeclareMathOperator*, floor and ceiling, absolute value and norms with mathtools, roots, fractions and function notation.

Read and fill MO diagrams for H2, O2, N2 and CO with bond orders, then draw them with the modiagram package, pure TikZ, chemfig Lewis structures and mhchem formulas.

26 Laplace transform pairs with regions of convergence, every property and theorem, worked inverse transforms by partial fractions, and the LaTeX source for the table.

Power, product, quotient and chain rules, a table of common and trig derivatives, the six inverse trig derivatives, worked examples and the LaTeX for every formula.

The five APA 7 heading levels with exact formatting, the rules for choosing a level, a worked outline of a student paper, and the headings in LaTeX with apa7 or titlesec.

Superscript in-text citations, the numbered reference list, examples for journal articles, books, chapters, websites and reports, AMA vs APA vs Vancouver, and AMA citations in LaTeX.

The author-page rule, one to three-plus authors, corporate and missing authors, no page numbers, qtd. in, block quotes, repeat citations, a ten-example table and MLA citations in LaTeX with biblatex-mla.

The Works Cited pattern for a book, examples for one or more authors, edited, translated, later-edition, e-book, multivolume and no-author books with their in-text forms, and a generated Works Cited in LaTeX.

APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago and IEEE bibliography entries with the BibTeX source for each, complete thebibliography, BibTeX and biblatex documents, an annotated bibliography example and the common errors.

\mathbb{R} with amssymb, all 26 letters with their Unicode code points, lowercase letters and the indicator 1 with dsfont, bbm and bbold, \symbb with unicode-math, bold vs blackboard bold, and the common mistakes.

What ≈ means, ≈ vs ~ vs ≃ vs ≅ with Unicode code points, how to type it on Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android and in HTML, and \approx, \not\approx, \sim and the amssymb variants in LaTeX.

A complete table of contents example, \tableofcontents and the .toc file, tocdepth vs secnumdepth, unnumbered entries, hyperref links, renaming, tocloft styling, lists of figures and Beamer outlines.

Footnotes on Beamer slides: \footnote[frame] in columns, footnotes without a number, smaller size and color, per-frame numbering, overlays, title-page \thanks and \footcite.

Slides in LaTeX with Beamer: frames, themes and color themes, overlays with \pause and \only, columns and blocks, title page and sections, handouts and speaker notes.

Horizontal and vertical spacing: \hspace, \vspace, \quad, the math spaces \, \: \; \! with their widths, line spacing with setspace and paragraph spacing.

XeLaTeX vs pdfLaTeX vs LuaLaTeX, system fonts with fontspec and \setmainfont, Unicode input, polyglossia for RTL languages, xeCJK and common errors.

LaTeX in any language: babel for pdfLaTeX, polyglossia for XeLaTeX, Spanish, French, German, Arabic and Hebrew, Chinese and Japanese, Russian, Greek.