TeX qurestions, for anybody who cares to reply... .

[Olivier Nicole]

Hi,

> i see that i've used "per se".  in my ascii type i cannot type
> the e-aigu and i cannot find it in any of the docs.  12-15 years
> ago when i was first messing with tex i remember there =was= a
> way of telling tex to type the diacritical mark over the "e"....

First remark, "per se" being latin takes no accute accent.

But you should be able to use back-slash, single quote, letter e, to
get a e-accute

> i would like to make the text smaller that the surrounding text.
> so my last question is: how do i tell tex/latex to make the

back-slash small?

Olivier