[texhax] issue with writing commands in LaTeX

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 25 June 2010 Hina Khalid wrote:

 > Hi,
 > I want to write \ in latex but it considers it as command start
 > lets say i want to write ' \dots ' as it is in my document I cant
 > figure how to do that. If I use verbatim environment it makes a new
 > paragraph of it, which I don't want.  What should I do?

Please try 

   \verb!\dots! 

and ask again if it doesn't solve your problem.  I used an exclamation
mark as a delimiter in the example above.  But you can use any other
character instead.  See also:

  http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=verbwithin

Regards,
  Reinhard

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