LaTeX symbol

A LaTeX "symbol" is a character or a backslash followed by a symbol name, that is rendered by LaTeX. Some symbols have required parameters that contain text that is rendered "inside" the given symbol, such as \sqrt in the following example.

Example

The following,

x
\sin
\sqrt{3}

are symbols, which are rendered as

${\begin{aligned}&x\\&\sin \\&{\sqrt {3}}\end{aligned}}$

See also

• List of LaTeX symbols