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<span id="Special-Insertions"></span><h2 class="chapter">12 Special Insertions</h2>
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<p>Texinfo provides several commands for inserting characters that have
special meaning in Texinfo, such as braces, and for other graphic
elements that do not correspond to simple characters you can type.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Special-Characters.html" accesskey="1">Special Characters</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Inserting @ {} , \ # &
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Inserting-Quote-Characters.html" accesskey="2">Inserting Quote Characters</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Inserting left and right quotes, in code.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Inserting-Space.html" accesskey="3">Inserting Space</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Inserting the right amount of whitespace.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Inserting-Accents.html" accesskey="4">Inserting Accents</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Inserting accents and special characters.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Inserting-Quotation-Marks.html" accesskey="5">Inserting Quotation Marks</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Inserting quotation marks.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Inserting-Subscripts-and-Superscripts.html" accesskey="6">Inserting Subscripts and Superscripts</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Inserting sub/superscripts.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Inserting-Math.html" accesskey="7">Inserting Math</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Formatting mathematical expressions.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Glyphs-for-Text.html" accesskey="8">Glyphs for Text</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Inserting dots, bullets, currencies, etc.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Glyphs-for-Programming.html" accesskey="9">Glyphs for Programming</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Indicating results of evaluation,
expansion of macros, errors, etc.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Inserting-Unicode.html">Inserting Unicode</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Inserting a Unicode character by code point.
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