The LaTeX Language

Some Fundamentals

Special Characters

Some characters reserved:

    #   $   %   &   ~   _   ^   \  {   }

These should not appear as part of your text: if they do TeX will get confused. Instead use
```
    \#    \$    ...    \textbackslash    $\backslash$
```

TeX Commands

Some commands have arguments, some don't:

\begin{document}
Here is an {\it italicised phrase\/} in the middle of a sentence.
\end{document}