The following characters play a special role in LaTeX and are called special printing characters, or simply special characters.

Nasledujici znaky hraji v LaTeXu vyznamnou roli. Rika se jim zvlastni znaky.

Whenever you put one of these special characters into your file, you are doing something special. If you simply want the character to be printed just as any other letter, include a \ in front of the character. For example, \$ will produce $ in your output.

Kdykoliv zapisete nektery z techto znaku do sveho vstupniho souboru, udelali jste neco specialniho. Pokud chcete, aby tento znak byl pouze vysazen (jako ostatni pismenka), musite pred nej vlozit \ . Napriklad \$ zpusobi vysazeni $ na vystupu.

Vyjimkou z tohoto pravidla je \ , protoze \\ ma svuj vlastni vyznam. \ dostanete zapisem $\backslash$ do sveho souboru.

The exception to the rule is the \ itself because \\ has its own special meaning. A \ is produced by typing $\backslash$ in your file.