Special insertions

LaTeX provides commands for inserting characters that have a special meaning do not correspond to simple characters you can type.

• Reserved characters		Inserting ‘# $ % & { } _ ~ ^ \’
• Upper and lower case		Make text upper or lower case.
• Symbols by font position		Inserting font symbols by number.
• Text symbols		Inserting other non-letter symbols in text.
• Accents		Inserting accents.
• Additional Latin letters		Inserting other non-English characters.
• \rule		Inserting lines and rectangles.
• \today		Inserting today’s date.