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21.3 Accents

LaTeX has wide support for many of the world's scripts and languages, through the babel package and related support. This section does not attempt to cover all that support. It merely the core LaTeX commands for creating accented characters.

\"
Produces an umlaut, as in ö.
\'
Produces an acute accent, as in ó. In the tabbing environment, pushes current column to the right of the previous column (see tabbing).
\.
Produces a dot accent over the following, as in o..
\=
Produces a macron (overbar) accent over the following, as in o¯.
\^
Produces a circumflex (hat) accent over the following, as in ô.
\`
Produces a grave accent over the following, as in ò. In the tabbing environment, move following text to the right margin (see tabbing).
\~
Produces a tilde accent over the following, as in ñ.
\b
Produces a bar accent under the following, as in o_.
\c
Produces a cedilla accent under the following, as in ç.
\d
Produces a dot accent under the following, as in .o.
\H
Produces a long Hungarian umlaut accent over the following, as in o''.
\i
Produces a dotless i, as in `i'.
\j
Produces a dotless j, as in `j'.
\t
Produces a tie-after accent, as in `oo['.
\u
Produces a breve accent, as in `o('.
\underbar
Not exactly an accent, this produces a bar under the argument text. The argument is always processed in horizontal mode. The bar is always a fixed position under the baseline, thus crossing through descenders. See also \underline in Math miscellany.
\v
Produces a hác<ek (check) accent, as in `o<'.