General ⇒ Missing $ Inserted

[daithi81]

Hello, I am trying to copy and paste a section of a paper I'm writing into LaTeX. It contains a few statements like 'Services for Greece are \$53m for 1991...' and as you can see I have clearly used the correct prefix for the dollar sign so Latex won't get confused. However, when I copy the text in and attempt to run it, I still get the above error.

What's going wrong?

[gmedina]

Hi,

the following code works OK in my system:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\begin{document}

\$53m for 1991

\end{document}

Please provide a minimal working example that allows us to reproduce the problem mentioned.

[daithi81]

Ok, I solved the issue. It has nothing to do with the $ signs, but rather a stray _ without a \.