1. Thomas

Not exactly sure how powerful \text is, but in case it doesn’t work or doesn’t do what you want, try \mbox instead. It’s just a box that, within a math environment or not, uses the font of the surrounding text.

2. It’s soooo ugly seeing variable names in formulas written without \text{} or \mbox{}… I think it’s one of the most common mistakes…

nice post!

3. Chi

Never knew intertext existed. Thanks!

4. erik

To my clone when he comes to this site: \text requires including the amstext package. (Yes, comments are the monological part of blogging.)

5. Thanks a lot 🙂

6. Mohd

Thank you so much. I needed that a lot

7. erik's clone

@erik thanks man, I made it here three years later.

• Awesome! Thanks to your comment I finally fixed the post, adding the required package to the sample code. Thanks, Tom.

8. How can i add the symbols along with text in the same line…for eg..the summation of every items are (summation symbol).﻿

• Either write a paragraph and use inline math ($...$) or text within the math environment (\textrm).

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

The summation of every item is: $\sum$

$$\textrm{The summation of every item is: } \sum$$

\end{document}
• Thanks Tom…