Possible Duplicate: How to look up a symbol? Escape character in LaTeX In the itemize environment, how do I use the ampersand symbol & without LaTeX trying to use it as a command?

1076 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 …

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 …

Jan 13, 2011 · How to type these special letters from European languages in latex? ä, é, and L'?

Jul 27, 2010 · 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 …

Sometimes the symbol := is used to denote a definition. For example, X:=Y+Z means that X is defined to be Y+Z. When using LaTeX, can I just use $:=$, or do I need to do something special?

Of course, one can also write this in a macro form, which could be considered "shorter", with some default value. Here is an example: \documentclass{article} \newcommand{\testIt}[1][A text that can …

LaTeX is not the only such package, though; ConTeXt is another macro package with a different design philosophy, but it sits at a similar level to LaTeX. Usage TeX and LaTeX are very widespread in …

Nov 9, 2021 · I want to know how to typeset quotation marks in LaTeX. When I use quotation marks (""), a problem occurs: the spacing between the quoted- and unquoted-word disappears.

Apr 26, 2012 · I am trying to insert the symbol in the title of the question, which I copied from a PDF article, but it appears as space in the output file. What is the corresponding LaTeX command?