Writing documentation with DocBook-XML 4.2

Entities for these five special characters are always available:

DocBook supports a modest set of letters with diacritical marks. Use the entity name shown in the first column to get the character shown in the second column. The third column shows an alternative form using a numeric value; such entities are less user-friendly but may be necessary in some circumstances.

Also supported are a wide variety of special symbols. Refer to O'Reilly's book DocBook for a complete list. Here is a selection: