Producing isolated accents

Question

Is it possible to produce isolated accents, with no letters under it?

I'm looking for these characters in specific: ` ~ ^ ´ ˆ ˜ ¨

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Roelof Spijker · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-20 16:21:26Z

up vote 8 down vote accepted

You can generate the accent like you would normally, only use a space as the letter to apply it to. As an example, consider the following:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
  $\tilde{ }$ $\hat{ }$ \'{ }
\end{document}

Which looks like this:

Accents

answered Dec 20 '11 at 16:21

Roelof Spijker
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Much easier than I thought. Thank you! – Falassion Dec 20 '11 at 16:30

egreg · Answer 2 · 2011-12-20 17:10:41Z

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There's no need to go in math mode:

\`{} \'{} \^{} \~{} \v{} \u{} \.{}

are various examples: just tell TeX to put the accent over nothing.

answered Dec 20 '11 at 17:10

egreg
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