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Automatically Escaping TeX's Special Characters

If the menu item TeX/LaTeX->Settings->Auto Escape Special Characters is selected, TeX's 10 special characters (\ $ & % # { } _ ^ ~) will automatically be substituted with appropriate commands in the LaTeX text equivalent when you |
|. Note that this facility only applies when creating
. It is not applied to existing text areas (either in the current image or loaded from a file) or when editing a text area.