[texhax] Using special characters like _ and " etc

[Juergen Fenn]

Syed Faraz Hasan schrieb:

> Latex displays everything following an underscore _ or an inverted comma
> " in italics form. There seems to be a special way of using special
> characters in the text. Can some one please help me out at this.

Please see lshort.pdf, page 5 for how to input special characters in
LaTeX. In case you want to quote a URL, have a look at url.sty (the
manual can be found in the source code). For more packages producing
verbatim output, see the TeX Catalogue.

ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english.zip
ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/misc/url.sty
http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/bytopic.html#verbatim

Jürgen.