[OS X TeX] colorbox

[Alain Schremmer]

I hadn't thought of \text{} that way!
Thanks.
Regards
--schremmer

Christopher Allen wrote:

>> I had done quite a bit of experimentation and, indeed, "couldn't 
>> accept" that a command would take things "out of math mode".
>
>
> There are a few commands that do this, the most obvious one is 
> \text{}, specifically used to do so.
>
> There are also commands that will take you into math mode in a similar 
> fashion. For example, if you use \boxed{} in the middle of a 
> paragraph, whatever is put into the box is typeset in math mode.
>
> Chris
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