Miscellaneous symbols\S

\SCommand

Used for section-sign references in running text, especially legal, editorial, and scholarly citations

\text{\S}
Available in
textmacros
Kind
prefix
Allowed mode
text
Frequency
<0.01% of corpus formulasrank 202 of 263
Commonality
low
Renderer support
PackageMathJaxKaTeXXeTeX
textmacrosMathJax: FullKaTeX: FullXeTeX: Full
About the test scope

Syntax#

\S

Takes no arguments. Reading argspecs

In TeXForm#

TeXForm parses this entry as prefix syntax; the package determines its argument specification.

Equivalent forms#

  • §exact

    MathJax's text parser inserts this Unicode character directly.

See also#

Test cases#

textmacros
InputCaseMathJaxKaTeXXeTeX
\SPositive · baselinePassPassPass
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