Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!msp33327 From: msp33327@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael S. Pereckas) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Need Backslashes in Text Message-ID: <1991Apr10.021225.18523@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 10 Apr 91 02:12:25 GMT Article-I.D.: ux1.1991Apr10.021225.18523 References: <1991Apr2.180612.19612@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 24 In mcintyre@cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre) writes: >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 ?? Just remember that \backslash must go in math mode. Also, from the looks of your posting, you misunderstand \verb. It isn't delimited by { }, but by a pair of any character, which mustn't appear in the text. \verb!like this! or \verbQthisQ or\ldots. It is unique in that. -- Michael Pereckas * InterNet: m-pereckas@uiuc.edu * just another student... (CI$: 72311,3246) Jargon Dept.: Decoupled Architecture---sounds like the aftermath of a tornado