How does one insert a backslash or a tilde (~) into LaTeX? 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 letter ) I believe \backslash may be used in math formulae, but not into text itself
Underscores in words (text) - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange 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 encoding does not guarantee that the character at position 5F (hex) is an underscore, that character in the specific font cmtt10 "happens" to be an underscore)
How to use the placement options [t], [h] with figures? 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 CTAN in English and French
How to get LaTeX symbol in document - LaTeX Stack Exchange I want to get that fancy LaTeX symbol to put in one of my documents but I cannot find it anywhere All searching for things like latex symbol have not resulted in the symbol but other symbols
What are good learning resources for a LaTeX beginner? 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 same with math in LaTeX
How can I get bold math symbols? - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange 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 do anything else What is the best way to make bold math symbols, in particular Greek letters and \nabla?