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 …

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?

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 …

Jul 30, 2010 · To make Latin-letter variables bold I can use e.g. \mathbf{a}, but while putting Greek letters or symbols such as \nabla inside \mathbf doesn't cause any errors or warnings, it also doesn't …

I want to represent, say, the closure of a set or the extended reals, e.g., $\\bar{\\mathbb{R}}$ but unfortunately this creates a bar that is much too small (horizontally) and can barely be seen. On ...

Aug 29, 2014 · I have seen several cases of people using the \\tab command to insert a specific amount of space between objects (as opposed to the \\hfill command which uses any remaining space). …

Note that \resizebox reads the whole table as marco argument which doesn't work with verbatim and some special TikZ matrix code. It's also not very efficient. An alternative would be to use the …

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?