

Otherwise, see if there are any discounts for student users. If you are currently a student, check if your university already offers Overleaf as a service. From there, sign up for a free account, which gives you 1GB of storage space. To start using Overleaf, go to their registration webpage.

The editor also allows you to edit different parts of a file at the same time, which comes in handy when you want to either insert text in multiple sections or fix a table’s formatting. This is useful when you want to view a reference without having to scroll to its section in the document. TeXstudio also has a “link overlay” feature that allows you to hover your cursor over any link in your document and see its contents. Overleaf was ok until I tasted other IDEs and then never came back to it.It also features an assistant for inserting pictures and tables, removing one of the biggest issues that a user faces when learning to write in LaTeX.

But while P圜harm is very good for programming, its TeXify is not as flexible as Atom IDE with addons, I couldn’t configure things like latexmk or adding aux and out folders. The closest to Atom is P圜harm, which I use for Python. I learned Linux OS just recently and I find both Emacs and Vim quite hard, although I know they are very customisable and extremely good. I can move all working files to an output folder to keep the main folder clean. I write ‘in’ and get inline math environment and then Pressing TAB moves a cursor out when I am done to continue writing. I can create my custom template commands aka snippets, e.g. I can also configure if I want an inner pdf-viewer or any external one. The combo IDE let me easily switch between pdflatex, xelatex or lualatex (I use the latter). It operates through latexmk, and is very configurable. Atom with following addons: latex and language-latex.
