\DeclareTextAccent (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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#### 4.1.2 `\DeclareTextAccent`

Synopsis:

    \DeclareTextAccent{cmd}{encoding}{slot}

Define an accent, to be put on top of other glyphs, in the encoding encoding at the location slot.

This line from `t1enc.def` declares that to make a circumflex accent as in `\^A`, the system will put the accent in slot 2 over the ‘`A`’ character, which is represented in ASCII as 65. (This holds unless there is a relevant `DeclareTextComposite` or `\DeclareTextCompositeCommand` declaration; see \DeclareTextComposite.)

    \DeclareTextAccent{\^}{T1}{2}

If cmd has already been defined then `\DeclareTextAccent` does not give an error but it does log the redefinition in the transcript file.

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