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'?

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 …

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?

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 …

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 download on …

Jan 29, 2015 · I would like to make a partial differential equation by using the following notation: dQ/dt (without / but with a real numerator and denomenator). Earlier today I got help from this page on how...

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 explanation Wh...