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I have gone through some of the questions on SO related to etc and other similar short hand characters. Everywhere is it problem specific. So I would like to know, is there a special command in latex, without defining out own command for using etc.
some thing goes for versus, a vs b ? how do we represent them?
Thanks.
You can display the definitions of this single-letter macros using:
$ texdef -t latex a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
The texdef command is available on CTAN.
Most of them seem to be diacritics. See https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Special_Characters for a table.
Here the post-formatted output of the above texdef:
Undefined:
\e \f \g \h \m \n \p \q \s \w \x \y \z
\A \B \C \D \E \F \G \I \J \K \M \N \Q \R \T \U \V \W \X \Y \Z
\a:
macro:#1->\expandafter \@changed@cmd \csname \string #1\endcsname \relax
\b:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \b \OT1\b
\c:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \c \OT1\c
\d:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \d \OT1\d
\i:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \i \OT1\i
\j:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \j \OT1\j
\k:
macro:->\T1-cmd \k \T1\k
\l:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \l \OT1\l
\o:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \o \OT1\o
\r:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \r \OT1\r
\t:
macro:->\OML-cmd \t \OML\t
\u:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \u \OT1\u
\v:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \v \OT1\v
\H:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \H \OT1\H
\L:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \L \OT1\L
\O:
macro:->\OT1-cmd \O \OT1\O
\P:
macro:->\protect \P
\P :
\long macro:->\ifmmode \mathparagraph \else \textparagraph \fi
\S:
macro:->\protect \S
\S :
\long macro:->\ifmmode \mathsection \else \textsection \fi
You can try this:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
I\kern-0.15em P
\end{document}
If you want to use it in math mode several times, you may want to create a macro.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newcommand{\probP}{\text{I\kern-0.15em P}}
\begin{document}
$\probP(A)=0.5$
\end{document}
Best Answer
There is no command for this but
\dots. In my eyes, dots are too informal for publications. Just useetc.\in the middle of a sentence andetc.at its end. Or\&c.\respectively. Versus should always bevs.\. In any case, make sure to use a custom command for this. As you seem to care for such things, you might change your mind later on and then you will be grateful for a custom command.