{accents} is about diacritics, i.e., ancillary glyphs added to a letter, or basic glyph. Some diacritical marks, such as the acute ( ´ ) and grave ( ` ), are often called accents. Diacritical marks may appear above, below, or within a letter, or between two letters.
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Can I get a \widebar without using the mathabx package?
One can use \bar to put a bar over a letter in math mode, but often the bar isn't wide enough. An alternative is \overline, but this isn't an accent, so it doesn't take into account the skew of the ...
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How do I lower the \widetilde accent, i.e., move it closer to the variable?
I sometimes find that the \widetilde accents sits too high above the math letter it is applied to. An example:
To me it looks as if the first tilde is sitting just in between the two lines; it is ...
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How to type special/accented letters in LaTeX?
How to type these special letters from European languages in latex?
ä, é, and L'?
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TeX accents do not seem to work with fontspec and xe/lua/latex
I am using Minion Pro as mainfont and it does not have in its glyph table the character U+1E47 Latin small letter with dot below which I need only once in my document. Rather than change to another ...
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Bad positioning of math accents for the beamer standard font
With a recent TeX distribution, the easy answer to this question is "load the sansmathaccent package" (which is Ariel's implementation of my answer). Actually, the corrected font should be loaded ...
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How to write “ä” and other umlauts and accented letters in bibliography?
How to write in bibliography (package natbib) letter "a" with two dots above? Specially, I mean the word Birkhäuser.
Is there a general rule or way how to write such umlauts or other accented letters ...
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Automatically change é to \'e – most convenient setup for accented letters?
I assume this is really basic question, I'm new to LaTeX, I read a first step tutorial to get ready to write some documents but I couldn't answer my own question at this time and I really don't know ...
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Why does \widehat behave differently if I insert \hspace{0pt}?
I am getting some inexplicable behaviour from \widehat:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\begin{document}
\[
\fbox{$\widehat{\mathcal{C}}$},
...
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Really wide hat symbol
Is there any way to get a hat wider than widehat?
Why doesn't
\widehat{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}
really go over all of it?
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How to get accented unicode characters that can be copy-pasted?
The aim is to generate the .pdf with accented characters (the .tex file has mixed macro and unicode input), in a way that the .pdf text can be copy-pasted.
An example:
\documentclass{article}
...
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How can I manually choose the size of a wide accent? (math mode)
I would like to replace the usual \hat in maths with a larger one, but I do not want it to stretch. The size I want is "the smallest \widehat" (as in $\widehat{.}$). Is there a way to put that one ...
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Parsing strings containing diacritical marks (macros?)
I apologize that this question may seem very much like several other recent ones I have asked (Parsing leading hardspaces, Parsing a \$ as part of an improved \getargs command). They are all related ...
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How to write properly an accent in a web address?
I'm trying to write a hyperlink for a DjVu document that includes Latin accent, but for some reason, it only displays properly for the PDF one. Specifically, on my list of references (bibliography), I ...
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Getting (Xe)LaTeX to display accents and characters not included with the font
The font I'm using (Adobe Garamond Premier Pro) does have certain precomposed glyphs with diacritics, so I'm having (Xe)LaTeX add them in. I found this post and used the method described there for ...
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How can I draw a dot under a symbol in math mode?
I'm trying to find the equivalent to \d (or \textsubdot) for the math mode.
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How to write directly French characters in Emacs and print them in LaTeX?
I am editing LaTeX with Emacs. I would like to write in French. At the moment I have to write special French characters for instance like this: \'e prints é. If I write directly é in Emacs, the ...
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How to mix accents from different fonts?
In TeXBook, exercise 9.6 Knuth asks to type Pal Erdos with needed accents in \tt font.
So I've tried the naive {\tt P\'al Erd\H os} and succeed.
But Knuth proposes to use the next mixup of fonts:
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Math mode accents and spacing
I'm using accents to produce a variant of the \in operator but when I place an accent on it, as in \tilde{\in}, I get spacing that is different from \in, see the example and the image below. My ...
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Why does xunicode not provide true backward compatibility?
As it is said in xetex mailing list
Xunicode is mostly about backward compatibility, providing
sensible general definitions for macros that have been defined
in older packages which now ...
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Why do arguments to nested \tilde or \breve commands reappear when amsmath is used?
On LaTeX-Community.org I've noticed a strange problem with nested \tilde and \breve commands, when amsmath is used.
In this code the X appears also in the output of the second and the third formula:
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'Nudging' overset characters downwards
I am trying to make a vector-like symbol to use in a paper I'm writing. I am actually able to make almost exactly what I want in Mathematica, in which it looks like this:
In TeX I am using ...
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ligature with special characters: fī
I am using a lot of special characters such as ā, ī, ū, š, ṣ, ḥ, ḫ and so on. I just spotted that sometimes this causes problems with ligatures for example the fi-ligature, if the dot on the i is a ...
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Umlauts in math mode
I'm trying to use German umlauts in math mode but get the known error: LaTeX Warning: Command \" invalid in math mode on input line ##.
So I could think of two possible solutions:
Use \text instead ...
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2answers
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Missing glyph in TeXGyreTermes font
For Pinyin (Chinese romanization), I like very much the look of the font TeXGyreTermes-Regular that is installed with my TeX system.
However, it seems to be missing a single Pinyin symbol that I ...
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How to use spanish accents?
I'm trying to add spanish accents to my document ( my Thesis )
\documentclass[11pt, spanish]{report}
\usepackage[spanish]{babel}
\selectlanguage{spanish}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
...
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3answers
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Turkish characters to small caps
Small caps (\sc) is not producing dotted I (İ)
Here is mwe
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[turkish]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath}
...
11
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2answers
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Enable searching in a pdflatex-generated document
I'm typesetting a book in French, and I noticed that diacritics broke the search function of Adobe reader. For example, if I write "Numérotation" in my latex document, then Adobe Reader won't find any ...
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MinionPro: math accents on swash capitals
The MinionPro option swash makes \mathcal use Minion swash capitals. The position of math accents on swash capitals could use some adjustment (see below).
For a single accent, applying \skew{6} ...
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votes
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How to make a larger “\dot”
I'm writing up some notes that will be displayed on an overhead projector. The standard time-derivative \dot{x} produces a dot that is hard to see. Does anyone know of a package or have a macro that ...
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votes
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inverted breve accent in math mode
Is there a math mode accent giving an inverted breve? I have tried \stackrel{frown}{x}, but the alignment and spacing are all wrong when compared to \breve{x}.
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How to put a big dot (and circle) over a variable?
Example: Click here
where one can see a big dot (and circle) over W. I am using \dot{W} and \mathring{W} but seems not big enough.
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Copy Czech characters from PDF with charter font
I wanna be able to copy czech characters from PDF, but for some reason it doesn´t work.
here is my code:
\usepackage{cmap}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{charter}
...
6
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1answer
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Apéndices (Appendix spanish accent)
Dear friends: there is a problem with appendix and ápendice.
I have a scrbook document and I use appendix package,
\usepackage[title, titletoc]{appendix}
because I like the word "Apéndice" in ...
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votes
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What's the correct syntax for accents?
I've found that writing "Sáenz":
S\'{a}enz
S\'aenz
S{\'a}enz
S{\'{a}}enz
Produces the same output.
It gets even trickier when you have two accents in a row, such as in "comunicação" (portuguese):
...
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Typeset directly in Spanish
I am typesetting in emacs with AucTeX. I generally write in English and Spanish, and, therefore, use the following in my preamble:
\usepackage[english,spanish]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
...
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votes
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How do I identify the encoding and family of a new math font?
In this question, sfranky asked to put a double accent over \bm{\phi}, produced by the bm package. Double accents are implemented in both the amsmath and accents packages, but those packages don't ...
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mathaccent skewchar with XeTeX
How can I get the dots in the correct position:
\font\test="XITS Math:script=math;mapping=italic" \skewchar\test=127
\XeTeXmathchardef\beta="0"1`β
\def\ddot{\XeTeXmathaccent"7"1"0308}
...
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Comprehensive list of accented characters [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
I was surprised to learn How to write “ä” and other umlauts and accented letters in bibliography?. Our BibTeX database consists of entries ...
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\ddot{a} character for strings
I'm looking for the \ddot{a} character which doesn't require me to put it into a formula or between $ characters.
Can anyone help me, please?
Thanks
