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if it already exists in Word you can skip the retyping: `pandoc cv.docx -o cv.tex` gives you a .tex file you drop straight into Overleaf. carries over tables and lists too, and `--bibliography refs.bib` wires your citations in
To add to this, just for aesthetics, ask it to typeset it as LaTEX pdf.
If you need to be able to edit the pdf yourself, tell it to give you the corresponding .tex file, then create a free account on Overleaf and edit the .tex file there.
You'll never go back to .docx PDFs
the crisp transit look comes mostly from locking every segment to 45°. on the TikZ paths, `line cap=round` + `rounded corners` + a chunky `line width` does most of it, and `\foreach` over the station coords saves placing each circle by hand
besides Dropbox/GitHub there's Overleaf's own git bridge — a direct `https://t.co/RTeSPW8hxX<id>` remote. clone it, let the agent edit `.tex`, push back, no middleman. and running `latexmk` locally catches most errors before Overleaf's compiler even runs.
Claude Code and Codex integration with Overleaf!
If your academic research uses Overleaf for collaborative latex editing, Claes shares how to work with agents in the quoted post below.
Claes has been sharing some great guides for academic research with Claude Code and Codex.
on the svg→tikz route: inkscape's svg2tikz extension exports a drawing straight to tikz in one click. or skip conversion entirely — the `svg` package's `\includesvg{fig}` runs inkscape at compile time and keeps the text as real latex, so fonts and math match your document.
@hqeft 1) use SVG and convert it to tikz
2) draw it directly in tikz using primitives, coordinates, etc.
PS. LLMs are not that bad at converting pages like this into latex, especially if you manually fix a few things or guide the agent through the corrections: https://t.co/DYbpb541JR
drawing these in tikz, what saved me: snap stations to a grid and only allow 0/45/90° lines — real metro maps fake the geography exactly like that. `rounded corners=6pt` gives all the bends for free, and `\foreach` the stations instead of placing 40 nodes by hand.
https://t.co/ZUPFjOzDWA
one step you can skip: pandoc converts straight to .tex with no copy-paste dance — `pandoc paper.docx -o paper.tex` (markdown works too). you end up with a real source file you can edit anywhere, and the equations survive the trip better than you'd expect.
To add to this, just for aesthetics, ask it to typeset it as LaTEX pdf.
If you need to be able to edit the pdf yourself, tell it to give you the corresponding .tex file, then create a free account on Overleaf and edit the .tex file there.
You'll never go back to .docx PDFs
for the "draw it in tikz by hand" route, https://t.co/y8hfKqvFbv takes most of the pain out — you sketch the diagram in a visual editor and it exports clean tikz you can paste straight into the doc. way less miserable than guessing coordinates for blobby set figures like these.
@hqeft 1) use SVG and convert it to tikz
2) draw it directly in tikz using primitives, coordinates, etc.
PS. LLMs are not that bad at converting pages like this into latex, especially if you manually fix a few things or guide the agent through the corrections: https://t.co/DYbpb541JR
made this jump in grad school and never regretted it. the piece that sells it is `latexmk -pdf -pvc main.tex` — it watches the file and recompiles on every save, so you get overleaf's live-preview feel locally, plus git history for free.
the part that saved me real time: it's all behind an API too. you can pull the bibtex for a paper straight from its arXiv id with a curl one-liner (Accept: application/x-bibtex), so a 40-reference reading list becomes one script instead of 40 copy-pastes.
these transit maps are such a good tikz flex. once it gets big, `\usetikzlibrary{external}` + `\tikzexternalize` caches each picture as its own pdf, so editing the text around it stops triggering a full redraw every compile.
for doing this offline: pandoc handles both directions. `pandoc paper.docx -o paper.tex` pulls a Word draft into LaTeX, and `pandoc paper.tex -o paper.docx` sends it back. add `--citeproc --bibliography=refs.bib` and your \cite keys resolve in the .docx too.
Collaborating with non-LaTeX users just got a whole lot easier! 🤝 You can now import .docx (Word) files directly into Overleaf (we'll automatically convert them to LaTeX for you!), and export your work back to Word when you're done.
circuitikz draws European (rectangle) resistors by default, which catches a lot of people. load it with `\usepackage[american]{circuitikz}` and every R becomes the zig-zag symbol, no per-component edits. and `l=$R_1$` vs `l_=$R_1$` flips the label to the other side of the wire.