diacritical marks?
How do we do diacritical marks in Sage? They don't work in math mode in LaTeX, so I don't see how to get them in Sage and google doesn't turn up any results more recent than a 2008 complaint.
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Aha!
Sage's interface for text cells has a "Special Characters" button (looks like a capital omega) that allows one to insert certain letters with diacritical marks.
For marks that are not there (such as the Erdos mark, which should be there), one can use an HTML code from a table and insert it using the HTML button in the text-cell interface.
(Thanks to Hannah Alpert for finding these solutions.)
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Mathjax doesn't support just old anything in LaTeX, just math stuff. Just write your stuff in your ordinary keyboard setting in the text cell (but not inside dollar signs) and it should work fine. If your keyboard doesn't do it nicely (as mine doesn't do the Hungarian accent for Erdos) that is when you might use the other little menu or html.
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Asked: 2014-07-08 21:55:27 +0100
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Can you be more precise about what you want to do? Are you using Sage on your computer, online, in command-line, in a notebook? Do you want to name a variable or function some name with diacritical marks, such as `café = 3` or def café(x): return coffee(x)`? Do you want to use filenames that contain diacritical marks? Do you want to include comments with diacritical marks in your code?
In a notebook, using the shift-click cells, where LaTeX automatically compiles on save.
I just wrote "Trying to write things like élan." in such a text cell with no problems... Anything [Mathjax](http://www.mathjax.org/) can do should be doable in the notebook there.
Well, when I write \'elan in LaTeX, I get a diacritical mark. But when I write it in the sage text cell, I get...\'elan. Searching the mathjax documentation for 'diacritical' doesn't turn up any results.