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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.

To get the true accented characters output in Info, and not just the ASCII transliterations, you can use the --enable-encoding option to makeinfo (see makeinfo options).

Command Output What
@"o ö umlaut accent
@'o ó acute accent
@,{c} ç cedilla accent
@=o macron/overbar accent
@^o ô circumflex accent
@`o ò grave accent
@~o õ tilde accent
@dotaccent{o} o. overdot accent
@H{o} o'' long Hungarian umlaut
@ringaccent{o} o* ring accent
@tieaccent{oo} oo[ tie-after accent
@u{o} o( breve accent
@ubaraccent{o} o_ underbar accent
@udotaccent{o} .o underdot accent
@v{o} o< hacek or check accent

This table lists the Texinfo commands for inserting other characters commonly used in languages other than English.

@exclamdown{} ¡ upside-down !
@questiondown{} ¿ upside-down ?
@aa{},@AA{} å,Å a,A with circle
@ae{},@AE{} æ,Æ ae,AE ligatures
@dotless{i} i dotless i
@dotless{j} j dotless j
@l{},@L{} /l,/L suppressed-L,l
@o{},@O{} ø,Ø O,o with slash
@oe{},@OE{} œ,Œ oe,OE ligatures
@ss{} ß es-zet or sharp S