Documentation

Welcome to the Overleaf knowledge base. A complete list of topics is provided on the left hand-side, but here is a selection of useful articles:

New to LaTeX?

Start with our Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes guide.

For more specific introductions, have a look at:

• Create your first document in LaTeX
• Paragraphs and new lines
• Bold, italics and underlining
• Lists
• Mathematics
• Bibliographies and references
• Images
• Tables

Overleaf guides

• Create your first Overleaf document
• Uploading a project to Overleaf
• Copying a project
• Creating a project from a template
• Using the Overleaf project menu
• Including images on Overleaf
• Exporting your work from Overleaf
• Using bibliographies on Overleaf
• Sharing your work with others
• Debugging Compilation timeout errors
• Code Check

Languages

Overleaf and LaTeX have support for a large selection of languages. These include Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Multilingual typesetting is discussed, with examples, in the article Multilingual typesetting on Overleaf using polyglossia and fontspec.

Advanced TeX/LaTeX

Overleaf has published a wide range of in-depth technical articles for readers interested in the low-level behaviour of TeX engines.