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Specialsymbols

SpecialSymbolsinLaTeX
TheLaTeXlanguagehasawidevarietyofspecialsymbolsforwhichmarkupcommandshavealready
beendefined.Theserangefromaccentsandgreekletterstoexoticmathematicaloperators.
TheseLaTeX'ssymbolsaregroupedtogethermoreorlessaccordingtofunction.Someofthese
symbolsareprimarilyforuseintextmostofthemaremathematicalsymbolsandcanonlybeusedin
LaTeX'smathmode.MosttablesareexcerptedfromtheLaTeXCommandSummary(Botway&
Biemesderfer1989,Providence,RI:TeXUsersGroup)andreproducedherecourtesyoftheAAS.

Table1:SpecialsymbolsforNOAOprop

Whenusedwithintheaffiliationfieldoftheproposalform,the\`,\'and\=needtobespecified
as\a`,\a'and\a=sincetheaffiliationisinatabbingenvironment.
Table2:Textmodeaccents

Table3:Nationalsymbols

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Table4:Miscellaneoussymbols

Table5:Mathmodeaccents

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Table6:Greekletters(mathmode)

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Table7:Binaryoperations(mathmode)

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Table8:Relations(mathmode)

Table9:Variablesizedsymbols(mathmode)

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Table10:Delimiters(mathmode)

Table11:Functionnames(mathmode)

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Table12:Arrows(mathmode)

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Table13:Miscellaneoussymbols(mathmode)

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