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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>Special Characters (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Special Characters (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Special Characters (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Insertions.html" rel="up" title="Insertions"> <link href="Inserting-Quote-Characters.html" rel="next" title="Inserting Quote Characters"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="section" id="Special-Characters"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Inserting-Quote-Characters.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Inserting Quote Characters</a>, Up: <a href="Insertions.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Special Insertions</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="Special-Characters_003a-Inserting-_0040-_007b_007d-_002c-_005c-_0023-_0026"></span><h3 class="section">11.1 Special Characters: Inserting @ {} , \ # &</h3> <span id="Braces-Atsign"></span><span id="Atsign-Braces-Comma"></span><span id="index-Special-characters_002c-inserting"></span> <span id="index-Commands-to-insert-special-characters"></span> <p>‘<samp>@</samp>’ and curly braces are the basic special characters in Texinfo. To insert these characters so they appear in text, you must put an ‘<samp>@</samp>’ in front of these characters to prevent Texinfo from misinterpreting them. Alphabetic commands are also provided. </p> <p>The other characters (comma, backslash, hash, ampersand) are special only in restricted contexts, as explained in the respective sections. </p> <ul class="section-toc"> <li><a href="Inserting-an-Atsign.html" accesskey="1">Inserting ‘@’ with <code>@@</code> and <code>@atchar{}</code></a></li> <li><a href="Inserting-Braces.html" accesskey="2">Inserting ‘{ ‘}’ with <code>@{ @}</code> and <code>@l rbracechar{}</code></a></li> <li><a href="Inserting-a-Comma.html" accesskey="3">Inserting ‘,’ with <code>@comma{}</code></a></li> <li><a href="Inserting-a-Backslash.html" accesskey="4">Inserting ‘\’ with <code>@backslashchar{}</code></a></li> <li><a href="Inserting-a-Hashsign.html" accesskey="5">Inserting ‘#’ with <code>@hashchar{}</code></a></li> <li><a href="Inserting-an-Ampersand.html" accesskey="6">Inserting ‘&’ with <code>@&</code> and <code>@ampchar{}</code></a></li> </ul> </div> </body> </html>