How do I use literally in LaTeX? - LaTeX Stack Exchange Possible Duplicate: How to look up a symbol? Escape character in LaTeX In the itemize environment, how do I use the ampersand symbol amp; without LaTeX trying to use it as a command?
How does one insert a backslash or a tilde (~) into LaTeX? 1075 How does one insert a "\" (backslash) into the text of a LaTeX document? And how does one insert a "~" (tilde)? (If you insert \~, it will give you a tilde as an accent over the following letter ) I believe \backslash may be used in math formulae, but not into text itself
Why is \ [ . . . \] preferable to - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange LaTeX still supports it for one reason or another, but the "proper" one to use, as defined in the specifications, is \[ \] All this just means that they are not promising that $$ will always work So it is technically possible (though unlikely in the near future), that compatibility with $$ is removed from LaTeX and lots of your documents
What commands are there for horizontal spacing? - LaTeX Stack Exchange There are a number of horizontal spacing macros for LaTeX: \, inserts a 16667em space in text mode, or \thinmuskip (equivalent to 3mu) in math mode; there's an equivalent \thinspace macro; \! is the negative equivalent to \,; there's an equivalent \negthinspace macro; \> (or \:) inserts a 2222em space in text mode, or \medmuskip (equivalent to 4 0mu plus 2 0mu minus 4 0mu) in math mode
Underscores in words (text) - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange The LaTeX command is \symbol You can see that LaTeX default underscore does not use char 95 when encoding is OT1, because it occasionally fails depends on the font (i e , the encoding does not guarantee that the character at position 5F (hex) is an underscore, that character in the specific font cmtt10 "happens" to be an underscore)
How to get LaTeX symbol in document - LaTeX Stack Exchange I want to get that fancy LaTeX symbol to put in one of my documents but I cannot find it anywhere All searching for things like latex symbol have not resulted in the symbol but other symbols
What are good learning resources for a LaTeX beginner? The Art of LaTeX is a 100-page intro to the subject with a lot of parallel " LaTeX -code : typeset-result" examples throughout the text A companion book, The LaTeX Math Companion, does the same with math in LaTeX
How to use the placement options [t], [h] with figures? The document "Using Imported Graphics in LaTeX and pdfLaTeX" contains a section about float placement and how to use those options, it's 17 2 Figure Placement It's available for download on CTAN in English and French