Please help me with this.
How to print >, < and % in LaTeX.
Backslash doesn't seem to work!
[Tex/LaTex] Printing >, <, and % in LaTeX
symbols
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The problem is that there are 3 interpretation stages involved.
- First macro expansion (this is avoided in my example due to the
luacode*environment) - Then Lua interprets the resulting string, where a backslash is an escape character
- At last LaTex again interprets what Lua has printed..
I had forgotten the last stage.. So the solution is:
tex.sprint("$\\backslash$");
or
tex.sprint("\\textbackslash");
Your question is very unclear but I assume from the tag you are using beamer.
\documentclass{beamer}
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
%\showoutput
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\textbf{aaa\textbackslash}
aaa \textbackslash
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Produces the warning
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OMS/cmss/bx/n' undefined
(Font) using `OMS/cmsy/m/n' instead
(Font) for symbol `textbackslash' on input line 11.
Telling you that \ comes from the math sans serif and there is no bold in OT1 encoding.
Adding
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
The warning goes away and you get:
where if you look closely (or at the output from \showoutput) the \ is bold.
Best Answer
The glyphs
<and>have usually no place in typeset text, except in mathematical formulas. In a math formula,<and>produce the right symbol:will provide the right spacing and letter shape.
You can still get those glyphs in normal text with
\textlessand\textgreater, provided you loadHowever, I don't recommend using them outside math formulas. You might want to use
\textlangleand\textranglein text, that produce different glyphsFor these either you use math mode (they are called
\langleand\rangle) or loadIn order to print %, just type
\%.