Do you know you can’t print all the characters in LaTeX present on the English keyboard? Only specific characters from an English keyboard can be directly printed in a LaTeX document. In this blog post, we’ll look at the characters that can be printed directly and characters that can’t be printed directly in LaTeX.
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List of English Keyboard characters that can be printed directly in LaTeX
1. Math operators
- –
- *
- /
- =
2. Punctuation Marks
- ,
- ;
- :
- !
- .
- ?
3. Quotations Marks
- `
- ’
- “
4. Brackets
- [
- ]
5. Parentheses
- (
- )
6. Digits
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
7. Lowercase letters
- 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
8. Uppercase letters
- 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
9. Miscellaneous
- @
The remaining characters on an English keyboard, which are not present in the above list, must be generated (or printed) in a LaTeX document using specific commands, as many of these characters are reserved in LaTeX for special purposes.
List of English Keyboard characters that can not be printed directly in LaTeX
- $
- #
- %
- ~
- {
- }
- _
- ^
- \
- &
- |
- >
- <
All the above characters are called special characters in LaTeX. Check out our post on how to print the special characters in LaTeX.
