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LaTeX and Maths: Mistakes and Errors

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In this post I talk about common mistakes while using maths in LaTeX and how to solve them.
There are lots of mistakes and errors and I will be focused just in the most important or common ones. If the error is not here, you should search that in other place, but I think I will cover most of them here. Let's start!!!

Mistakes

  • Forget the $ $ or \[ \] to put the equation
  • Forget a } to close the instruction that you are using
    • If you are using an autocomplete environment you do not need to worry about this, but sometimes happens
  • Put an environment which does not need a math environment, like align, inside a math environment
  • Mis-spell the name of a reference or a tag while calling it
  • Left a blank space in an environment which does not allow this
  • Mis-spell the name of a command

Sometimes we mix the environments, for example, formulas in tables, or formulas in lists, well here and here you can check other kinds of errors in tables and lists.

This is all for today, tanks :)

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