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From: mcintyre@cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre)
Subject: Re: Need Backslashes in Text
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Date: 9 Apr 91 02:47:12 GMT
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sharp@snuffleupagus.csd.scarolina.edu (Harry Sharp) writes:
>I need to have backslashes (\) appear in my text, but I can't seem to
>make the \verb{} environment work in LaTeX.  Even if that would work,
>the font changes to \tt and in a figure this looks bad.
>
>Is there a simple way to remove the magic connotations from the \ ?

How about \backslash ??


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