Foreign Symbols

Many Western languages use symbols and accents that do not appear in normal English. L^ATEX provides a convenient method of generating accents and other symbols. Figure 1 shows accents that can be placed on any existing character--simply replace the o in the curly braces with the letter you wish to accent.

  

Figure 1: Accents

Some other foreign characters are encoded directly, when they cannot be built as combinations. Figure 2 shows foreign-language symbols which are available, and Figure 3 shows some special non-English symbols. Note that these characters cannot immediately be followed by other characters, so you must follow them with a space or with empty curly braces, as in:

ukasiewicz invented prefix (Polish) notation.

which is produced by

\L{}ukasiewicz invented prefix (Polish) notation.

  

Figure 2: Foreign language symbols

  

Figure 3: Special Language Symbols