LaTeX - Special Characters

Commands used in LaTeX to get special characters in your documents.

Accents

For the letters 'i' and 'j' you first need to remove the dot above it by typing a '\' infront of it. It should look like this \i for the letter 'i' and \j for 'j'. Otherwise LaTeX won't be able to add the accent.

\O		% Slashed capital o
\o		% Slashed o
\`{}	% Grave accent
\'{}	% Acute accent
\^{}	% Circumflex
\"{}	% Trema / Umlaut
\~{}	% Tilde
\r{}	% Ring above letter
\aa		% Same as the command above, but automatically for an 'å'
\H{}	% Double Acute (Hungarian umlaut)
\k{}	% Ogonek
\v{}	% Caron / Háček above letter
\l{}	% Barred
\u{}	% Breve above letter
\c{}	% Cedilla
\={}	% Bar above letter (Macron)
\b{}	% Bar underneath letter
\.{}	% Dot above letter
\d{}	% Dot underneath letter
\t{}	% Tie over two letters

Miscellaneous

Some other commands useful for characters.

\usepackage[official]{eurosym}	% Enables Euro sign command.
\usepackage[gen]{eurosym}		% Enables Euro sign command that is affected by font.
\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{20AC}{\euro{}}	% This enables you to use a Euro sign on your keyboard.
\euro{}			% Euro sign €

\pounds			% Pound sign £

\$				% Dollar sign $

\textless			% Less than <
\textgreater		% Greater than >
\%					% Percentage sign %
\{					% {
\}					% }
\_					% _
\P					% ¶
\dag				% †
\ddag				% ‡
\#					% #
\&					% &
\S					% Paragraph sign §
\textbar			% |
\textendash			% –
\textemdash			% —
\texttrademark		% Trademark sign
\textregistered		% Registered sign
\copyright			% Copyright sign
\textexclamdown		% ¡
\textbackslash		% \
\textquestiondown	% ¿
\textcircled{a}		% ⓐ

\textsuperscript{a}	% Superscript