ASCII TABLE, CHARCHART Name Dec Oct Hex Char null ctrl-@ 0 000 00 NUL start of heading ctrl-A 1 001 01 SOH start of text ctrl-B 2 002 02 STX end of text ctrl-C 3 003 03 ETX end of xmit ctrl-D 4 004 04 EOT enquiry ctrl-E 5 005 05 ENQ acknowledge ctrl-F 6 006 06 ACK bell ctrl-G 7 007 07 BEL \a backspace ctrl-H 8 010 08 BS, \b horizontal tab ctrl-I 9 011 09 HT, \t line feed ctrl-J 10 012 0A LF, \n vertical tab ctrl-K 11 013 0B VT, \v form feed ctrl-L 12 014 0C FF, NP, \f carriage feed ctrl-M 13 015 0D CR, \r shift out ctrl-N 14 016 0E SO shift in ctrl-O 15 017 0F SI data line escape ctrl-P 16 020 10 DLE device control 1 ctrl-Q 17 021 11 DC1, XON device control 2 ctrl-R 18 022 12 DC2 device control 3 ctrl-S 19 023 13 DC3, XOFF device control 4 ctrl-T 20 024 14 DC4 neg acknowledge ctrl-U 21 025 15 NAK synchronous idel ctrl-V 22 026 16 SYN end of xmit block ctrl-W 23 027 17 ETB cancel ctrl-X 24 030 18 CAN end of medium ctrl-Y 25 031 19 EM substitute ctrl-Z 26 032 1A SUB escape ctrl-[ 27 033 1B ESC file separator ctrl-\ 28 034 1C FS group separator ctrl-] 29 035 1D GS record separator ctrl-^ 30 036 1E RS unit separator ctrl-_ 31 037 1F US space 32 040 20 Space exclamation mark 33 041 21 ! double quote 34 042 22 " hash 35 043 23 # dollar 36 044 24 $ percent 37 045 25 % ampersand 38 046 26 & quote 39 047 27 ' open parenthesis 40 050 28 ( close parenthesis 41 051 29 ) asterisk 42 052 2A * plus 43 053 2B + comma 44 054 2C , minus 45 055 2D - full stop 46 056 2E . oblique stroke 47 057 2F / 48 060 30 0 49 061 31 1 50 062 32 2 51 063 33 3 52 064 34 4 53 065 35 5 54 066 36 6 55 067 37 7 56 070 38 8 57 071 39 9 colon 58 072 3A : semicolon 59 073 3B ; less than 60 074 3C < equals 61 075 3D = greater than 62 076 3E > question mark 63 077 3F ? commercial at 64 100 40 @ 65 101 41 A 66 102 42 B 67 103 43 C 68 104 44 D 69 105 45 E 70 106 46 F 71 107 47 G 72 110 48 H 73 111 49 I 74 112 4A J 75 113 4B K 76 114 4C L 77 115 4D M 78 116 4E N 79 117 4F O 80 120 50 P 81 121 51 Q 82 122 52 R 83 123 53 S 84 124 54 T 85 125 55 U 86 126 56 V 87 127 57 W 88 130 58 X 89 131 59 Y 90 132 5A Z open square bracket 91 133 5B [ backslash 92 134 5C \ close square bracket 93 135 5D ] caret 94 136 5E ^ underscore 95 137 5F _ back quote 96 140 60 ` 97 141 61 a 98 142 62 b 99 143 63 c 100 144 64 d 101 145 65 e 102 146 66 f 103 147 67 g 104 150 68 h 105 151 69 i 106 152 6A j 107 153 6B k 108 154 6C l 109 155 6D m 110 156 6E n 111 157 6F o 112 160 70 p 113 161 71 q 114 162 72 r 115 163 73 s 116 164 74 t 117 165 75 u 118 166 76 v 119 167 77 w 120 170 78 x 121 171 79 y 122 172 7A z open curly bracket 123 173 7B { vertical bar 124 174 7C | close curly bracke 125 175 7D } tilde 126 176 7E ~ delete 127 177 7F DEL From the LaTeX Companion: sp Scaled point (65536 sp = 1 pt) TeX's smallest unit pt Point = 1/72.27 in = 0.351 mm bp Bit point (72 bp = 1 in), also PostScript point dd Didot point = 1/72 of a French inch, 0.376 mm mm Millimeter = 2.845 pt pc Pica = 12 pt = 4.218 mm cc Cicero = 12 dd = 4.531 mm cm Centimeter = 10 mm = 2.371 pc in Inch = 25.4 mm = 72.27 pt = 6.022 pc ex Height of a small `x' for the current font em Width of capital `M' for the current font mu Math unit (18 mu = 1 em) for positioning in math mode Some standard font names: Bookman-Demi Courier Bookman-DemiItalic Courier-Oblique Bookman-Light Courier-Bold Bookman-LightItalic Courier-BoldOblique AvantGarde-Book Helvetica AvantGarde-BookOblique Helvetica-Oblique AvantGarde-Demi Helvetica-Bold AvantGarde-DemiOblique Helvetica-BoldOblique Helvetica-Narrow Palatino-Roman Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique Palatino-Italic Helvetica-Narrow-Bold Palatino-Bold Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique Palatino-BoldItalic NewCenturySchlbk-Roman Times-Roman NewCenturySchlbk-Italic Times-Italic NewCenturySchlbk-Bold Times-Bold NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic Times-BoldItalic Paper sizes from the GhostScript man page: 11x17 11" 17" 27.94 43.18 a0 33.0556" 46.7778" 83.9611 118.816 a10 1.02778" 1.45833" 2.61056 3.70417 a1 23.3889" 33.0556" 59.4078 83.9611 a2 16.5278" 23.3889" 41.9806 59.4078 a3 11.6944" 16.5278" 29.7039 41.9806 a4 8.26389" 11.6944" 20.9903 29.7039 a5 5.84722" 8.26389" 14.8519 20.9903 a6 4.125" 5.84722" 10.4775 14.8519 a7 2.91667" 4.125" 7.40833 10.4775 a8 2.05556" 2.91667" 5.22111 7.40833 a9 1.45833" 2.05556" 3.70417 5.22111 archA 9" 12" 22.86 30.48 archB 12" 18" 30.48 45.72 archC 18" 24" 45.72 60.96 archD 24" 36" 60.96 91.44 archE 36" 48" 91.44 121.92 b0 39.3889" 55.6667" 100.048 141.393 b1 27.8333" 39.3889" 70.6967 100.048 b2 19.6944" 27.8333" 50.0239 70.6967 b3 13.9167" 19.6944" 35.3483 50.0239 b4 9.84722" 13.9167" 25.0119 35.3483 b5 6.95833" 9.84722" 17.6742 25.0119 flsa 8.5" 13" 21.59 33.02 flse 8.5" 13" 21.59 33.02 halfletter 5.5" 8.5" 13.97 21.59 ledger 17" 11" 43.18 27.94 legal 8.5" 14" 21.59 35.56 letter 8.5" 11" 21.59 27.94 note 7.5" 10" 19.05 25.4 Digraph encoding in VIM (on Linux, probably ISO-LATIN-1) ~! ¡ 161 c| ¢ 162 $$ £ 163 ox ¤ 164 e= ¤ 164 Y- ¥ 165 || ¦ 166 pa § 167 "" ¨ 168 cO © 169 a- ª 170 << « 171 -, ¬ 172 -- ­ 173 rO ® 174 -= ¯ 175 ~o ° 176 +- ± 177 22 ² 178 33 ³ 179 '' ´ 180 ju µ 181 pp ¶ 182 ~. · 183 ,, ¸ 184 11 ¹ 185 o- º 186 >> » 187 14 ¼ 188 12 ½ 189 34 ¾ 190 ~? 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