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11. Some Fundamentals

Special Characters

TeX and LaTeX reserve some characters for its own use:

    #   $   %   &   ~   _   ^   \  {   }
These should not appear as part of your text: if they do TeX will get confused. Instead use
    \#    \$    ...

TeX Commands

All TeX commands:

Some commands have arguments, some don't:
\begin{document}
Here is an {\it italicised phrase\/} in the middle of a sentence.
\end{document}




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