Equations and Symbols
Accents and Symbols
Latex’s plain text commands are also convenient for typesetting accents. For example:
– 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: | \'a |
Acute: | \`a |
Circumflex: | \^a |
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| Umlaut: | \"a |
Tilde: | \~a |
Macron: | \=a |
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| Breve: | \u{a} |
Cedilla: | \c{a} |
Dot: | \.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 |
\C |
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\% |
\ddag |
\texttrademark |
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\# |
\P |
\S |
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\{ \} |
\dots |
\checkmark |
Additional symbols and alphabets can be typeset by using packages, which are covered in the next section.