Finding the latex-command for a character

Question

How can I write enter image description here in latex? Which command should I use?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '14 at 22:25

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Well, in this particular case, as soon as you know that it's one of those Greek letters, you can look it up and see that it's called "nu" and therefore written \nu in LaTeX.

If it's a symbol, try texdoc symbols.

In general, try http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html

Edit: Sorry, I just followed my own advice and found out that this is more likely to be a \mathcal{V}.

answered Jan 06 '14 at 22:25

Christian

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Yes! \mathcal{V} (upper case V). – Sigur Jan 06 '14 at 22:29
@Sigur I was lucky this wasn't in some other math font. A bit of context would have helped either way. Anyway, found it :) – Christian Jan 06 '14 at 22:31

Finding the latex-command for a character

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