[OS X TeX] Writing an Underscore in LateX

[David Watson]

The underscores in your PDF show up just fine for me.

On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Ishe Chinyoka wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your help. Actually, for interest sake, I am using MacTex 2011 on Snow Leopard with Voiceover as the screen reader. What is strange is that when I run Plastex to convert the source Tex file to HTML, the underscores are there, but in the PDF file, they are not there.
> <test.tex><test.pdf>
> Anyway, find attached a sample of my test TeX source file and a sample output PDF.
> 
> Thanks once again,
> 
> Ishe
> 
> 
> 
> On 28 Jul,2011, at 4:10 PM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 28, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Ishe Chinyoka wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Thanks Klaus. I just tried that and the file was typeset, but here is another strange problem: I see no underscores in the final PDF document. I even tried to wrap these in the \verb|word_to_wra| and this worked. But now the issue is with items that are part of the description list environment like this:
>>> 
>>> \begin{description}
>>> \item[word\_to\_wrap]
>>> \end}description}
>>> 
>>> The underscores are stripped and I get 
>>> 
>>> Word to wrap
>>> 
>>> Instead.
>>> 
>>> Is there a way to put a word in the \verb|| wrap in a list item? If this were possible, I would try it. For example, can I do this:
>>> 
>>> \item[\verb|word_to_wrap|]
>>> 
>>> Thanks once again,
>>> 
>>> Ishe
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> Works fine here. Could create a minimal but compilable example where it doesn't work so we can see exactly what is happening?
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>> 
>> 
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