[OS X TeX] tabular newbie question
Samuel Lelievre
samuel.lelievre at univ-rennes1.fr
Sun Nov 28 19:34:24 CET 2004
Google Kreme wrote:
>I was trying to create a nice table of the Half Life 2 cheat codes
>(the actaul document will be much longer, but I've reduced it here to
>the minimum that doesn't work:
<snip>
>TeX Shop gives me:
>
>! Missing $ inserted.
><inserted text>
> $
>l.9 Set Gravity & sv_
> gravity \\
>?
>! Extra }, or forgotten $.
><template> \unskip \hfil }
> \hskip \tabcolsep \hskip
>-.5\arrayrulewidth \vrule...
>l.10 S
> hows FPS Rate & cl_showfps 1 \\
>?
The error you see has nothing to do with the tabular environment.
The character _ is special in TeX, it is used for subscript, and
only in math mode. So whenever TeX sees it in non-math mode, it
assumes a $ has been forgotten.
You can tell TeX to treat a special character as normal by using
the command \string. The character immediately following \string
will be considered normal.
For instance, typing
sv\string_gravity
should get you rid of the error you had.
Hope that helps.
Samuel Lelievre
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