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14.4 Inserting Accents
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Here is a table with the commands Texinfo provides for inserting
floating accents.  They all need an argument, the character to accent,
which can either be given in braces as usual ('@'{e}'), or, as a special
case, the braces can be omitted, in which case the argument is the next
character ('@'e').  This is to make the source as convenient as possible
to type and read, since accented characters are very common in some
languages.

  If the command is alphabetic, such as '@dotaccent', then there must be
a space between the command name and argument if braces are not used.
If the command is non-alphabetic, such as '@'', then there must _not_ be
a space; the argument is the very next character.

  Exception: the argument to '@tieaccent' must be enclosed in braces
(since it is two characters instead of one).

  To get the true accented characters output in Info, not just the ASCII
transliterations, it is necessary to specify '@documentencoding' with an
encoding which supports the required characters (Note:
@documentencoding).  In this case, you can also use non-ASCII (e.g.,
pre-accented) characters in the source file.

Command           Output   What
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@"o               o"       umlaut accent
@'o               o'       acute accent
@,{c}             c,       cedilla accent
@=o               o=       macron/overbar accent
@^o               o^       circumflex accent
@`o               o`       grave accent
@~o               o~       tilde accent
@dotaccent{o}     o.       overdot accent
@H{o}             o''      long Hungarian umlaut
@ogonek{a}        a;       ogonek
@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/check/caron 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{}       aa AA   a,A with circle
@ae{} @AE{}       ae AE   ae,AE ligatures
@dh{} @DH{}       d D     Icelandic eth
@dotless{i}       i       dotless i
@dotless{j}       j       dotless j
@l{} @L{}         /l /L   suppressed-L,l
@o{} @O{}         /o /O   O,o with slash
@oe{} @OE{}       oe OE   oe,OE ligatures
@ordf{} @ordm{}   a o     Spanish ordinals
@ss{}             ss      es-zet or sharp S
@th{} @TH{}       th TH   Icelandic thorn