## 15.2. Predefined Strings

Items marked with a dagger () appear in more recent versions of the me macros. You will need to double-check them on your system.

`*` | Footnote number, incremented by `.)f` macro
`#` | Delayed text number
`[` | Superscript; move up and shrink type size
`]` | Undo superscript
`<` | Subscript; move down and shrink type size
`>` | Undo subscript
`–` | 3/4 em dash
`dw` | Day of week, as a word
`mo` | Month, as a word
`td` | Today's date, in the form `January 20, 1999`.
`lq` | Left quote mark
`rq` | Right quote mark
`$n` | Section name
`'` | Acute accent
``` | Grave accent
`qa` | For all
`qe` | There exists
`,` | Cedilla
`:` | Umlaut
`^` | Caret
`o` | Circle (e.g., for Scandinavian [aolig]). Usage is `A\*o`.
`v` | Inverted “v” for Czech [czeck-ve]. Usage is `e\*v`.
`{` | Begin superscript
`}` | End superscript
`~` | Tilde

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