Accents and Symbols

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Accents and Symbols

Latex’s plain text commands are also convenient for typesetting accents. For example:

$\text{Celui qui ne connait pas les langues \'etrang\`eres ne sait rien sur lui-m\^eme.}$
– 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:	$\text{\'a}$	`\'a`	Acute:	$\text{\`a}$	\`a	Circumflex:	$\text{\^a}$	`\^a`
Umlaut:	$\text{\"a}$	`\"a`	Tilde:	$\text{\~a}$	`\~a`	Macron:	$\text{\=a}$	`\=a`
Breve:	$\text{\u{a}}$	`\u{a}`	Cedilla:	$\text{\c{a}}$	`\c{a}`	Dot:	$\text{\.a}$	`\.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.

$\$$	`\$`	$\dag$	`\dag`	$\copyright$	`\C`
$\%$	`\%`	$\ddag$	`\ddag`	$\texttrademark$	`\texttrademark`
$\#$	`\#`	$\P$	`\P`	$\S$	`\S`
$\{ \}$	`\{ \}`	$\dots$	`\dots`	$\checkmark$	`\checkmark`