How do I use literally in LaTeX? - LaTeX Stack Exchange Possible Duplicate: How to look up a symbol? Escape character in LaTeX In the itemize environment, how do I use the ampersand symbol amp; without LaTeX trying to use it as a command?
How does one insert a backslash or a tilde (~) into LaTeX? For the special case where a backslash or tilde must be written to an auxiliary file or shell escape see: How can I provide a verbatim (unescaped) commandline for executing with \write18?
Underscores in words (text) - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange This reminds me of one of my pet peeves : all these unneeded special characters in the text mode If you use the underscore package, then you don't need to escape the _ in text mode FWIW, in ConTeXt, _ has a letter catcode in text mode, so simply typing Samp_Distt_Corr works