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Special Characters ::#::%::symbol::
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The following characters play a special role in LaTeX and are 
called "special printing characters", or simply 
"special characters". 

	# $ % & ~ _ ^ \ { }

Whenever you put one of these special characters into your 
file, you are doing something special. If you simply want 
the character to be printed just as any other letter, include 
a \ in front of the character. For example, \$ will produce 
$ in your output. 

One exception to this rule is the \ itself because \\ has its 
own special meaning. A \ is produced by typing $\backslash$ 
in your file. 
Also, \~ means `place a tilde accent over the following letter', 
so you will probably want to use \verb instead. 

In addition, you can access any character of a font once you 
know its number by using the \symbol command. For example, 
the character used for displaying spaces in the \verb* 
command has the code decimal 32, so it can be typed as 
\symbol{32}. 

You can also specify octal numbers with ' or hexadecimal 
numbers with ", so the previous example could also be written
 as \symbol{'40} or \symbol{"20}. 
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