Producing isolated accents

Question

Is it possible to produce isolated accents, with no letters under it?

I'm looking for these characters in specific: ` ~ ^ ´ ˆ ˜ ¨

If you are searching for special characters, you can always look at http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html — Philipp, Dec 20 '11 at 16:23

score 11 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 20 '11 at 17:10

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There's no need to go in math mode:

\`{} \'{} \^{} \~{} \v{} \u{} \.{}

are various examples: just tell TeX to put the accent over nothing.

answered Dec 20 '11 at 17:10

egreg

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score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 20 '11 at 16:21

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You can generate the accent like you would normally, only use a space as the letter to apply it to. As an example, consider the following:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
  $\tilde{ }$ $\hat{ }$ \'{ }
\end{document}

Which looks like this:

Accents

answered Dec 20 '11 at 16:21

Roelof Spijker

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 09 '20 at 20:53

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In case of XeLaTeX and some individual accent characters in Greek (e.g. Psili - Unicode U+1FBF) it is posisble to ensure the character is not combined with the preceding letter using the following trick:

ἐπ\/᾿\ \ ὀλίγον

Which renders correctly as "ἐπ᾿ ὀλίγον" instead of π combined with Psili.

answered Dec 09 '20 at 20:53

sophros

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Note that Unicode has the non-combining psili ᾿ (U+1FBF) and also might support adding the combining accent to a non-breaking space (^^^^00a0 or ~) – Davislor Dec 09 '20 at 22:42

Davislor · Answer 4 · 2020-12-09T22:45:44.423

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In Unicode, the canonical way to do this is to combine the accent with a non-breaking space (U+00A0). In TeX, a non-breaking space is ~,

There are also Unicode codepoints for many non-combining accents.

edited Dec 09 '20 at 22:45

answered Dec 09 '20 at 22:04

Davislor

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Producing isolated accents

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