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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (D.A. Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Where in Leslie Lamport's LaTeX manual is this?
Message-ID: <3183@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 21 Nov 89 09:24:08 GMT
References: <2598@goanna.oz.au>
Reply-To: dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (D.A. Hosek)
Organization: Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <2598@goanna.oz.au> isaac@goanna.oz.au (Isaac Balbin) writes:
->Someone waltzed into my office the other day and asked, 
->"How do I get a caret symbol as part of a \section title?, 
-> When I use {\tt ^} I have problems, I can't use \verb, I can't use
-> \^ since that means something else"
->Now, we solved the problem by \chardef\caret`\^ but it occurred to me
->that the LaTeX manual ought to be exhaustive in telling the user how to
->reproduce _each_ special character without having the special effect.
->I couldn't find this one in the index. Have you seen it? How do _you_ handle
->this problem?

The LaTeX manual, in the reference manual section, references a command
called \symbol which can be used in the context of \symbol{NUMBER} to
get the character with character code NUMBER. \chardef is not mentioned
because it doesn't follow the same syntax rules as normal LaTeX commands
(e.g., all required arguments go in {}, optionals in [], and numeric pairs
for picture mode in ().)

The LaTeX manual does include a pointer to the TeXbook for more advanced
constructions (particularly in math).

-dh
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