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Special characters

When entering normal text, you must watch out for a few things. Some characters are reserved for commands to LATEX, and are treated as such unless you tell LATEX to treat them as normal characters. To use the characters
	# $ % & _ { }
outside of a verbatim environment (see Section 6 for more information on environments), you must precede them with a backslash (\), like this:
	\# \$ \% \& \_ \{ \}

These characters are also reserved:

	~ ^ \ < >
Often, if you think you want one of these characters, you probably want to do something else.


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Alex Rolfe
1999-10-29