I want to write something in an R Sweave document so that the following appears in the compiled PDF:
When you write "\beta" and compile the document, you see "β".
However, when I escape the backslash for beta, I'm getting a line break, which is not desired.
How do I get "\beta" rather than a line break?
Example from file test.rnw:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
When you write ``\\beta'' and compile the document, you see ``$\beta$''.
\end{document}
Result:
Setup:
Macbook Pro, R 4.1.0, RStudio 1.4.1717, rmarkdown 2.9, and some version of MacTex installed. RStudio is set to compile using knitr and pdflatex.
Use \textbackslash
When you write ``\textbackslash beta'' and compile the document, you see ``$\beta$''.