Paul Erdős' name has an "o" which has something a bit like an umlaut but not quite the same. How do you do this symbol in LaTeX?
[Tex/LaTex] How to do Paul Erdős’ name in LaTeX
accents
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How about using {\"u} instead of \"{u}?
You can write the macron using \=<character>;
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
Sankhy\=a
\end{document}
Just for the record, here's a table I wrote some time ago, containing (I think) all the accents provided by LaTeX (the original names were in Spanish; I used the English names I found on the web, but let me know if there's any mistakes):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[USenglish]{babel}
\usepackage{fourier}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{
basicstyle=\small\ttfamily}
\begin{document}
{
\renewcommand\arraystretch{1.3}
\noindent\begin{tabular}{@{}clcc@{}}
\toprule & &
\multicolumn{2}{c@{}}{Example}\\
\cmidrule(l){3-4}
Definition &
\multicolumn{1}{@{}c}{Description} &
Input &
Output \\
\cmidrule(r){1-1}\cmidrule(r){2-2}\cmidrule(l){3-3}\cmidrule(l){4-4}
\lstinline+\'{<character>}+ & acute accent & \lstinline+\'{a}+ & \'{a}\\
\lstinline+\`{<character>}+ & grave accent & \lstinline+\`{a}+ & \`{a}\\
\lstinline+\"{<character>}+ & umlaut or dieresis & \lstinline+\"{u}+ & \"{u}\\
\lstinline+\c{<character>}+ & cedilla &\lstinline+\c{c}+ & \c{c}\\
\lstinline+\={<character>}+ & macron & \lstinline+\={a}+ & \={a}\\
\lstinline+\b{<character>}+ & bar under &\lstinline+\b{a}+ & \b{a}\\
\lstinline+\u{<character>}+ & breve accent &\lstinline+\u{a}+ & \u{a}\\
\lstinline+\v{<character>}+ & há\v{c}ek &\lstinline+\v{a}+ & \v{a}\\
\lstinline+\~{<character>}+ & tilde & \lstinline+\~{n}+ & \~{n}\\
\lstinline+\^{<character>}+ & circumflex accent & \lstinline+\^{o}+ & \^{o}\\
\lstinline+\.{<character>}+ & dot accent &\lstinline+\.{a}+ & \.{a}\\
\lstinline+\d{<character>}+ & dot-under accent &\lstinline+\d{a}+ & \d{a}\\
\lstinline+\r{<character>}+ & ring &\lstinline+\r{a}+ & \r{a}\\
\lstinline+\H{<character>}+ & long Hungarian umlaut &\lstinline+\H{a}+ & \H{a}\\
\lstinline+\k{<character>}+ & ogonek &\lstinline+\k{a}+ & \k{a}\\
\lstinline+\t{<character>}+ & tie-after accent &\lstinline+\t{oo}+ & \t{oo}\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}
\end{document}
As egreg mentions in his comment, Accents over the "i" deserve special mention: `i , \'i, \^i and \"i produce the desired accent, but \i must be used for the others, for instance \={\i} or \v{\i}.
Of course, some of the accents can be obtained loading the inputenc package and typing them directly from the keyboard.
Thanks to Mico for suggesting the addition of the ogonek.
Best Answer
You can directly input the ő if you use the utf8 inputenc encoding:
Should work.
Otherwise you can use the
\Hcommand:P\'al Erd\H{o}sshould do the trick.EDIT: I incorporated the correct name, suggested by @egreg