Getting the error Missing inserted in LaTeX

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I try to write the following in latex    begin itemize       item  textbf insert element text   inserts the element or text passed at the start of the selection       item  textbf insert after element text   inserts the element or text passed at the end of the selection       item  textbf replace element text   replaces the selection with the passed text element       item  textbf delete    deletes the selected text       item  textbf annotate name value   annotates the selected text with the passed name and value-pair  This can either be a hidden meta-data about the selection  or can alter the visible appearance       item  textbf clear annotation    removes any annotation for this specific selection       item  textbf update element value   performs an update of the element at the selection with the passed value   end itemize    For some reason  I get a bunch of errors  I think there is something with the use of the word  insert   I get errors like  Missing   inserted   so it seems like the parses tries to fix some  errors  on my parts  Do I need to escape words like  insert   how do I do that

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I had this problem too  I solved it by removing the unnecessary blank line between equation tags  This gives the error    begin equation  P  underline  hat X      underline Y           end equation    while this code compiles succesfully    begin equation  P  underline  hat X      underline Y          end equation

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I had this symbol   in the head of one table and the code didn t run  so I had to delete

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The  Missing   inserted  is probably caused by the underscores and bars  These characters in  LaTeX have special meaning in math mode  which is delimited by   characters   Try escaping them  e g  update  element instead of update element   However  if you re trying to display code  a better solution would be to use the  verb command  which will typeset the text in a monospaced font and will automatically handle underscores and bars correctly  no need to escape them with

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My first guess is that LaTeX chokes on   outside a math environment   Missing   inserted is usually a symptom of something like that

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also  I had this problem but the bib file wouldn t recompile  I removed the problem  which was an underscore in the note field  and compiled the tex file again  but kept getting the same errors  In the end I del d the compiled bib file   bbl I think  and it worked fine  I had to escape the   using a backslash

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I think it gives the error because of the underscore symbol   Note   underscore symbol should not be written directly  you have to write like as      So fix these kind special symbol errors

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I had the same problem - and I have read all these answers  but unfortunately none of them worked for me  Eventually I tried removing this line    usepackage latin1  inputenc    and all errors disappeared

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It s actually the underscores  Use    instead  or include the underscore package

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In my code  when I got the error  I checked the possible source  In a line  I had typed a beginning    and an ending    due to which the error of missing   appeared though I tried using   for both the brackets  Removing the brackets or using     instead of      solved my problem  If you ve something like that  try altering

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You can also get this error if you use special character greek letters like  alpha  beta and so on outside of math mode  After i wrapped them in         the error was gone

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