Using Greek Letters

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For the following example I'm getting Missing $ inserted... with regard to the \rho command:

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\citet{d05a}, in particular, it implies that in this setting \rho rises over time.

I tried $rho$ , as it seemed to be suggesting, but that just put the word rho in italics.

greek letters are "math"-objects. Hence you need to do $\rho$ (remember the backslash). :) — nickpapior, Mar 04 '13 at 15:51
$\rho$ is the right thing: it's a math symbol and requires math mode. LaTeX experts will probably use $\rho$ . — egreg, Mar 04 '13 at 15:51
Absolutely amazing. I only started using LaTeX for the first time yesterday - talk about a steep learning curve! Thanks to both of you though, this has worked a treat! — dannyd, Mar 04 '13 at 15:53
@egreg, I believe $...$ is (mildly) deprecated. At least I prefer $...$ as it has clear open/close. — vonbrand, Mar 04 '13 at 16:48
Related: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/69901/how-to-typeset-greek-letters — hpekristiansen, Mar 04 '13 at 19:33
@vonbrand Are ( and ) preferable to dollar signs for math mode?. — Speravir, Mar 04 '13 at 21:35

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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If you can use unicode-enabled engines such as XeTeX or LuaTeX, you can simply add the greek letter ρ into the document.

If you stick to tex of pdftex as engines, you can find a way by the inputenc package, for example here you can find some help.

In all cases, $\rho$ or $\rho$ will give you a ρ in italics. If you need in upright shape, you can use the upgreek package for that.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

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answered Mar 04 '13 at 19:37

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Just as a bit more information: remember to use $\uprho$ rather than $\rho$ after declaring the upgreek package (or the  syntax as you desire). – Andy K. Mar 05 '13 at 15:24

Using Greek Letters

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