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 …

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. …

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., …

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

Jan 7, 2016 · I am using \\if condition in a custom command in my LaTeX document. I would like to know where I can find some good explanation about \\if command. I followed a Wikibooks …

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 · 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 …

Dec 25, 2014 · Recently, I have been translating a foreign paper that has main title and subtitle. My trial: \\documentclass[UTF8]{ctexart} \\usepackage{amsmath} \\usepackage ...