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Accents

Text mode

The following commands may be used only in paragraph or LR mode.

• \`{o} produces a grave accent, ò
• \'{o} produces an acute accent, ó
• \^{o} produces a circumflex, ô
• \"{o} produces an umlaut or dieresis, ö
• \H{o} produces a long Hungarian umlaut
• \~{o} produces a tilde, õ
• \c{c} produces a cedilla, ç
• \={o} produces a macron accent (a bar over the letter)
• \b{o} produces a bar under the letter
• \.{o} produces a dot over the letter
• \d{o} produces a dot under the letter
• \u{o} produces a breve over the letter
• \v{o} produces a "v" over the letter
• \t{oo} produces a "tie" (inverted u) over the two letters

Note that the letters "i" and "j" require special treatment when they are given accents because it is often desirable to replace the dot with the accent. For this purpose, the commands \i and \j can be used to produce dotless letters.

For example,

• \^{\i} should be used for i, circumflex, î
• \"{\i} should be used for i, umlaut, ï

Math mode

• \hat{o} is similar to the circumflex (cf. \^)
• \widehat{oo} is a wide version of \hat over several letters
• \check{o} is a vee or check (cf. \v)
• \tilde{o} is a tilde (cf. \~)
• \widetilde{oo} is a wide version of \tilde over several letters
• \acute{o} is an acute accent (cf. \`)
• \grave{o} is a grave accent (cf. \')
• \dot{o} is a dot over the letter (cf. \.)
• \ddot{o} is a double dot over the letter
• \breve{o} is a breve (cf. \u)
• \bar{o} is a macron (cf. \=)
• \vec{o} is a vector (arrow) over the letter

Tabbing environment

• \a' for an acute accent
• \a` for a grave accent
• \a= for a macron accent

• Greek letters
• Ligatures and Non-English symbols
• Miscellaneous symbols

• \overbrace
• \overline

• Math environment
• Math Formulas and Math Symbols
• Variable size symbols