General ⇒ Where can I find babel codes for turkish and polish?

[craigim]

I can't seem to find anywhere a list of the codes that babel uses to modify roman characters to produce characters in other languages (eg. \"{o} for the German umlauted 'o'). Specifically, I need to know how to put a rounded set of up-pointing horns above a letter for both a Polish (I think) name that I need to reference in a journal, and in the name of a Turkish dish in my personal recipe collection, and I need to put a dot above a capital 'I', in that same Turkish food name.

It's the sort of thing I would think someone would have put together a table of somewhere, but I have thus far not been able to find it. Any help?

[localghost]

[…] It's the sort of thing I would think someone would have put together a table of somewhere, but I have thus far not been able to find it. Any help?

You should acquire at least one book about basic LaTeX documentation. There you will find what you need. For the present you may take a look at The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (Table 18, p. 13).


Best regards
Thorsten

[craigim]

Thank you for that list! I tried about 10 different variations on the theme in Google and never came up with anything useful. I wish CTAN would put this list more prominently on their website.

You should acquire at least one book about basic LaTeX documentation...

Well, I've got 'LaTeX, a Document Preparation System, 2nd Ed' by Lamport, 'The LaTeX Companion' (both the 1st and 2nd editions) by Mittelbach and Goossens, and 'The LaTeX Graphics Companion' by Goossens, Rahtz, and Mittelbach, none of which has a table of symbols beyond those used for mathematics. If you can suggest a more basic reference book that does have such a list, I would love to add it to my collection.

[localghost]

[...] Well, I've got 'LaTeX, a Document Preparation System, 2nd Ed' by Lamport, 'The LaTeX Companion' (both the 1st and 2nd editions) by Mittelbach and Goossens, and 'The LaTeX Graphics Companion' by Goossens, Rahtz, and Mittelbach, none of which has a table of symbols beyond those used for mathematics. If you can suggest a more basic reference book that does have such a list, I would love to add it to my collection.

That's a little bit astonishing to me. Your list only contains (in my opinion) first class literature. I would expect such a list available at least in "The LaTeX Companion". Since I don't know the German version, I can't say if it contains the symbols. But I use two other (German) books which do so. Finally, the document I referenced will serve very well. I found some alternative commands from the text companion fonts, but the short forms are more user friendly.

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\capitalbreve
\capitaldotaccent

Supplement (Jan 17th 2008, 5:51:00 pm):
Just a few days before your request here, I ordered the Lamport book (2nd Edition, 22nd printing, February 2006). Today it has arrived. And you won't believe what I found out. Just take a look at Table 3.1 - Accents. Right from the beginning I couldn't imagine that such a book shouldn't list how to typeset symbols from other languages. So, I guess that the Companion also will contain such a list. It's only a matter of searching in the right way, isn't it?.