7 Accents and Symbols
Laura Greenstreet
Latex’s plain text commands are also convenient for typesetting accents. For example:
[latex]\text{Celui qui ne connait pas les langues \'etrang\`eres ne sait rien sur lui-m\^eme.}[/latex]
– Goethe
[latex]\text{Celui qui ne connait pas les langues \'etrang\`eres ne sait rien sur lui-m\^eme. - Goethe} [/latex]
Note that in Pressbooks, you will need to surround the sentence by \text{} for the text to format properly. The table below shows the Latex commands for some common accents.
| Grave: | [latex]\text{\'a}[/latex] | \'a |
Acute: | [latex]\text{\`a}[/latex] | \`a |
Circumflex: | [latex]\text{\^a}[/latex] | \^a |
| Umlaut: | [latex]\text{\"a}[/latex] | \"a |
Tilde: | [latex]\text{\~a}[/latex] | \~a |
Macron: | [latex]\text{\=a}[/latex] | \=a |
| Breve: | [latex]\text{\u{a}}[/latex] | \u{a} |
Cedilla: | [latex]\text{\c{a}}[/latex] | \c{a} |
Dot: | [latex]\text{\.a}[/latex] | \.a |
Common symbols can also be typeset. Note that some symbols on the keyboard have a “\” command since the regular symbol has a special meaning in Latex. The symbols in the table below can be used in math and text mode.
| [latex]\$[/latex] | \$ |
[latex]\dag[/latex] | \dag |
[latex]\copyright[/latex] | \C |
| [latex]\%[/latex] | \% |
[latex]\ddag[/latex] | \ddag |
[latex]\texttrademark[/latex] | \texttrademark |
| [latex]\#[/latex] | \# |
[latex]\P[/latex] | \P |
[latex]\S[/latex] | \S |
| [latex]\{ \}[/latex] | \{ \} |
[latex]\dots[/latex] | \dots |
[latex]\checkmark[/latex] | \checkmark |
Additional symbols and alphabets can be typeset by using packages, which are covered in the next section.
