How to write letters with a slash on it?

Question

How do I write letters like the following in mathjax?

Answer 1

If there exists a specific symbol, you should use that: such as \notin $\notin$, \neq $\neq$, \nmid $\nmid$.

Alternatively, you can use \not. For example, \not\in $\not\in$, \not= $\not=$, \not\mid $\not\mid$, \not\equiv $\not\equiv$.

I will quote from "MathJax basic tutorial and quick reference" - current revision: "You can use \not to put a slash through almost anything: \not\lt $\not\lt$ but it often looks bad."

Answer 2

@MartinSleziak has already mentioned almost everything important, so I would only mention a few alternatives and additional information.

For a character/symbol (which I will write as [symbol]) you don't necessarily have to write \not[symbol]. Alternatively, you can also use \not{[symbol]} (both look the same, but it's useless if you use it quite often in one line or it's not a $\LaTeX$ command that you have to write with \. E.g. \not{a} is $\not{a}$.

Unfortunately, some $\LaTeX$ symbols cannot be written correctly with \not{[symbol]} and do not have \not[...] in their names. Instead they use \n[...]. E.g. \nsupseteqq is $\nsupseteqq$, but \notsupseteqq does not exist and \nsupseteqq ($\not{\supseteqq}$) looks much different. For some symbols even this doesn't work. E.g. you have to write \varnothing for $\varnothing$.

If you don't like any of the variants, you can also use \![...]\! / Use as an alternative. \! is a kind of negative line spacing, which moves your text after it (here the /) further into the character before it. E.g. x \!\! / is $x \!\! /\!$, x \!\!\! / is $x \!\!\! /$, x \!\!\!\! / is $x \!\!\!\! /\,$ and \not{x} is $\not{x}$. The same goes for \backslash ($\backslash$) or \setminus ($\setminus$). With this you can also get other symbols like $\therefore \!\! \because$ (\therefore \!\! \because).