Q&A for users of TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related typesetting systems

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How does one insert a "" (backslash) into the text of a LaTeX document? And how does one insert a "~" (tilde)? (If you insert ~, it will give you a tilde as an accent over the following letter.) I

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Unfortunately, proper maintenance of the LaTeX Wikibook has gone astray. Quite a lot of the provided information is a bit outdated. Since it is very hard for a beginner to judge the quality of.

Possible Duplicate: How to look up a symbol? Escape character in LaTeX In the itemize environment, how do I use the ampersand symbol & without LaTeX trying to use it as a command?

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I have heard a lot about LaTeX, but never used it myself. It is mainly used for typesetting professional research papers. But I am not writing research papers. Is LaTeX for me? If yes, why should...

What editors/IDEs are available for easing the process of writing TeX/LaTeX documents? Please state some useful features like code completion, spell checking, building final DVI or PDF.

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