[Tex/LaTex] How to use symbols such as \delta and \lambda

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I'm trying to use symbols such as \lambda and \delta but for some reason it's not compiling. I've reproduced the problem in the following code:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{center}

M = < X,Y,S,ta, \delta int, \delta ext, \lambda >

\end{center}

\end{document}

I'm getting the following errors:

Missing $ inserted M = < X,Y,S,ta, \delta

Missing $ inserted I've inserted a begin-math/end-math symbol since I think

Missing } inserted I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.
Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup

Despite these errors, I can still view it in a PDF and it looks like the following:

The output of above code

So, just to clarify what I actually want:

  1. To compile without the errors i.e. how do you make use of symbols like \delta etc?

  2. How do I actually make it display like the following :

    enter image description here

  3. As depicted above, I want int and ext to be subscripts to the \delta symbols

Best Answer

You want a centered formula; so the correct way to do it is

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{article}

\begin{document}

\[
M = \langle X, Y, S, ta, \delta_{\mathrm{int}}, \delta_{\mathrm{ext}}, \lambda \rangle
\]

\end{document}

enter image description here

This is covered in any basic LaTeX manual, for example The not so short introduction to LaTeX

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