Symbols by font position (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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### 23.3 Symbols by font position

You can access any character of the current font using its number with the `\symbol` command. For example, the visible space character used in the `\verb*` command has the code decimal 32, so it can be typed as `\symbol{32}`.

You can also specify numbers in octal (base 8) by using a `'` prefix, or hexadecimal (base 16) with a `"` prefix, so the previous example could also be written as `\symbol{'40}` or `\symbol{"20}`.

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