Text Formatting ⇒ Undefined control sequence: $\text

[sombrancelha]

Hello,

I have just performed a clean installation of Kile + TexLive and when I tried inserting text inside math mode, through the \text command, it didn't compile and gave me the error:

Undefined control sequence: $\text

Any idea on what can be wrong? All I did was as simple as

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$\text{abc}$

[kaiserkarl13]

You need to include the amstext package (which is also included by the amsmath package) to get \text{} to work. You can use \mbox{} for many of the same things (except in sub/superscripts) to get the same effect without loading that package.

[sombrancelha]

Duh, I should have realized it was a missing package! Thanks!