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From: isaac@goanna.oz.au (Isaac Balbin)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Where in Leslie Lamport's LaTeX manual is this?
Message-ID: <2614@goanna.oz.au>
Date: 22 Nov 89 23:49:02 GMT
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Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (D.A. Hosek) writes:

>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. 
True enough, but this is far too esoteric and remote. You will note that
under the entry symbol - special, in the index, page 200 is *not* mentioned.
Whatsmore, in the early pages, when Lamport describes the special symbols
we are not alerted to a problem with ^. Also, \symbol appears in a section
entitled Loading Fonts, tucked away in a corner. Is ^ the only symbol
that one cannot (easily) explicate without funny devices, such as \symbol
or chardef.

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

Okay, but this isn't advanced, this is a basic request for a symbol.