How to look up a symbol? Escape character in latex in the itemize environment, how do i use the ampersand symbol & without latex trying to use it as a command? I'm a beginner trying to use latex.

Latex is what's known as a macro format and it sits on top of tex abstracting away all the messiness of the low level commands of it. Keeping your content separate from formatting decisions, allowing you. Q&a for users of tex, latex, context, and related typesetting systems Latex still supports it for one reason or another, but the proper one to use, as defined in the specifications, is \[ \]. All this just means that they are not promising that $$ will always work.

All this just means that they are not promising that $$ will always work.