# $ % & _ { }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.
~
can be produced in several ways. If you want a tilde
over a character, like ñ, you can type \~{n}
or
\~n
. If
you want a mathematical
you can type $\sim$
(which
stands for similar to). More often you will want the
within another math expression anyhow; for more detail
see Section 8 below.
^
can likewise mean circumflex, as in ô which is
produced with \^{o}
or \^o
. In math mode you would use
\hat{o}
to indicate a unit vector.
\
is not used very often in normal writing, but you can
type $\backslash$
if you want to use it.
<
and >
can be written as $<$
and
$>$
. If you insert these symbols in your document
without quoting them as described here, they will appear as
upside-down exclamation points (<) and question marks (>).