insert_accent

This command places the specified accent on the first item to the left of the cursor if the item is a character. accentname is an entity name. Not all accent names are valid in all document types. The DTD for the document must define the appropriate accent entity as given in the following table.

Accents
Accent name	Entity name	Accent name	Entity name
acute*	acute	dotbelow	dotbelow
barbelow	barbelow	grave*	grave
breve	breve	double acute	dblac
caron	caron	macron*	macr
cedilla*	cedil	ring*	ring
circumflex*	circ	tilde*	tilde
dotabove	dot	umlaut*	uml
*Accents marked with an asterisk are ISO-Latin-1 characters and will display as accented letters in the Edit pane. The other accents are available in PostScript printer fonts and will print but are shown as SGML entity references in the Edit pane.