General ⇒ Getting the Dollar Sign in the Output

[lubica]

Hello,

I know the us dollar sign "$" is used to characterize number in latex but how to write a dollar sign itself not to characterize numbers but the currency itself?
For example: The cost of material is $150...

I appreciate your response. Thanks.

[localghost]

Such basics can be found in introductions like lshort. This document is also listed in a special topic for beginners [1]. Since this character (among others) is reserved to LaTeX, you need a special input to get the desired result.

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\$ 150

[1] LaTeX Resources for Beginners


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[BHorn]

The following ten characters have special meanings in (La)TeX:

& % $ # _ { } ~ ^ \

Outside \verb, the first seven of them can be typeset by prepending a backslash; for the other three, you can use the macros \textasciitilde, \textasciicircum and \textbackslash.

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\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\& \% \$ \# \_ \{ \}

\textasciitilde

\textasciicircum

\textbackslash

\end{document}