General ⇒ rookie question: paste texts into latex and reserve original

[ericyuan]

Hi everyone, I am new at the forum, nice to c u all!!

i am actually very new to latex as well, and have a very rookie question. say, i have a large paragraph of text that i want to paste into latex files, and the texts contain some latex keywords like "%" or "$", which i want to know whether there is a simple way to reserve the original look of the text, or do i have to modify every keyword occurred? there are really a lot...

thanks in advance!
Eric

[curiouslearn]

Try putting the text in the verbatim environment.

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\begin{verbatim}
     Text text text text text text text text
\end{verbatim}

[Juanjo]

Try putting the text in the verbatim environment.

That could be a solution if it would suffice to typeset the text in typewriter font. In general, I would paste the text in a LaTeX editor. Then I would use the "search&replace" feature of the editor to change, say, % by \%. Quick and easy.

[ericyuan]

Thanks!!!