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. |
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