Text Formatting ⇒ Text becomes italic and runs off page

[gking92]

Hi there, I'm new to LaTeX and I've made what is most likely a rookie mistake... (apologies if this is really basic)

When I input the following

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In ACO 595, the 10th brightest galaxy has a B band magnitude of m_{B} = 15.60. In order
to detect more galaxies beyond this, this calculation uses a value 1 magnitude dimmer:
let m_{595} = 16.60.

it outputs past the number in italics and runs off the page like this

[mas]

Hi there, I'm new to LaTeX and I've made what is most likely a rookie mistake...

Everybody was a rookie at one time

When I input the following

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In ACO 595, the 10th brightest galaxy has a B band magnitude of m_{B} = 15.60. In order
to detect more galaxies beyond this, this calculation uses a value 1 magnitude dimmer:
let m_{595} = 16.60.

You should post a minimal working example always so that people can compile that on their machines and help you with the errors. In the above code, you have used an underscore, m_{B} which is not allowed. It can be used only in math mode. Replace m_{B} = 15.60 by $m_{B} = 15.60$. You text snippet should be like this

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In ACO 595, the 10th brightest galaxy has a B band magnitude of $m_{B} = 15.60$. In order
to detect more galaxies beyond this, this calculation uses a value 1 magnitude dimmer:
let $m_{595} = 16.60$.

I would strongly suggest you to read some introductory LaTeX documents to get the idea.

Regards.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the forum!

Some introductory material, which may be helpful: LaTeX Resources for Beginners.

Stefan