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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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?

Mar 20, 2012 · 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., …

Jul 28, 2010 · for whatever it's worth, i remember hearing knuth say that if he were creating tex all over again, he wouldn't use a "toggle" approach for math mode, but would use a clean …

The other famous tilde question could be made a bit more general and canonical by changing it to mean both text and math mode. Answers deal already with it in math mode. And the top …

I'm a beginner trying to use LaTeX. I tried to write a sentence which includes the %-symbol using \text {}, but the function that the %-symbol has in LaTeX seems to block me from using it in a …

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 …