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 …

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'?

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. …

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 …

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., …

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 …

Jul 27, 2010 · What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents? Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building …

I want to put some checkmarks inside table cells. I have put a cross sign using $\\times$ but I really don't know how to write a checkmark in latex. I used \\usepackage{bbding} package and …

Although many have attempted to explain the difference among \mathrm, \textrm, \textnormal and \text (and others?), I found them misleading. See for example the LaTeX's Wiki \mathrm …