Special characters

General The iso style defines a few commands to access unusual elements of the LaTeX character set. These are given in the rest of this section.

Some of the predefined LaTeX commands to do such things are given in $[*]$ . There are many more in the LaTeX book.

Reserved characters LaTeX has ten reserved characters:

# $ % & ~ _ ^ \ { }

These are available in the iso style as

\# \$ \% \& \tilde \_ \caret \bslash \{ \}

respectively.

The `' character only exists in the TeX maths and typewriter fonts. The \bslash command gives a maths backslash, except inside a \prog command (see $[*]$ ), where it gives a typewriter backslash.
$\begin{note} \verb\vert\bslash\vert differs from TeX's \verb\vert\backslash\vert... ...all fonts, \verb\vert\bslash\vert gives that character. \end{itemize}\end{note}$

Quotes When you types quotes, or , in LaTeX, they appear as ' and ` respectively. You may prefer and in which case you can type \rquote or \lquote repectively (these stand for right and left quote — I don't like these names but all the good ones have been taken by TeX).