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Inserting Accents

Here is a table with the commands Texinfo provides for inserting floating accents. The commands with non-alphabetic names do not take braces around their argument (which is taken to be the next character). (Exception: @, does take braces around its argument.) This is so as to make the source as convenient to type and read as possible, since accented characters are very common in some languages.

@multitable {@questiondown{}} {Output} {macron/overbar accent}

  • Command @tab Output @tab What
  • @"o @tab @"o @tab umlaut accent
  • @'o @tab 'o @tab acute accent
  • @,{c} @tab @,{c} @tab cedilla accent
  • @=o @tab @=o @tab macron/overbar accent
  • @^o @tab @^o @tab circumflex accent
  • @`o @tab `o @tab grave accent
  • @~o @tab @~o @tab tilde accent
  • @dotaccent{o} @tab @dotaccent{o} @tab overdot accent
  • @H{o} @tab @H{o} @tab long Hungarian umlaut
  • @ringaccent{o} @tab @ringaccent{o} @tab ring accent
  • @tieaccent{oo} @tab @tieaccent{oo} @tab tie-after accent
  • @u{o} @tab @u{o} @tab breve accent
  • @ubaraccent{o} @tab @ubaraccent{o} @tab underbar accent
  • @udotaccent{o} @tab @udotaccent{o} @tab underdot accent
  • @v{o} @tab @v{o} @tab hacek or check accent This table lists the Texinfo commands for inserting other characters commonly used in languages other than English. @multitable {@questiondown{}} {oe,OE} {es-zet or sharp S}
  • @exclamdown{} @tab @exclamdown{} @tab upside-down !
  • @questiondown{} @tab @questiondown{} @tab upside-down ?
  • @aa{},@AA{} @tab @aa{},@AA{} @tab A,a with circle
  • @ae{},@AE{} @tab @ae{},@AE{} @tab ae,AE ligatures
  • @dotless{i} @tab @dotless{i} @tab dotless i
  • @dotless{j} @tab @dotless{j} @tab dotless j
  • @l{},@L{} @tab @l{},@L{} @tab suppressed-L,l
  • @o{},@O{} @tab @o{},@O{} @tab O,o with slash
  • @oe{},@OE{} @tab @oe{},@OE{} @tab OE,oe ligatures
  • @ss{} @tab @ss{} @tab es-zet or sharp S


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