[texhax] math symbols

Mon May 9 22:15:08 CEST 2005

Wow. Scathing, as usual.

It took me a long time to figure out to put the $'s around symbols to make
them work right.  for alot of symbols I try to use I find that I also must
\usepackage{amssymb} but this might not be true for \beta.

what do you mean, though, when you say that the former is more robust?

bobby

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On Mon, 9 May 2005, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> > hi;
> > i think am missing a package since when compiling a document including
> > \beta it fail.  Which package i have to use
>
> \beta is part of the core latex distribution.
>
> if you had bothered to report what the error was, i could be more
> helpful than merely using my crystal ball:
>
>   "missing $ inserted" is corrected by putting the \beta in maths, so
>   you can change:
>
>     ... this is a \beta-version ...
>
>   into either
>
>     ... this is a \ensuremath{\beta}-version ...
>
>   or
>
>     ... this is a $\beta$-version ...
>
>   the first form is preferred, since it's more robust, but the latter
>   is less typing.
>
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