Thanks to all of you for your hints and comments!
I thought \l does work, why \L does not.
To type \L is faster than changing the keyboard language when I write in 
German normally.

Greetings

Am 18.05.24 um 13:33 schrieb Bruce Horrocks:
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>> On 18 May 2024, at 11:54, Thomas Meyer<thomasgmeyer@t-online.de>  wrote:
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>> I know I can copy and paste it, like here (copied from Wikipedia), but if I don't have a template in a hurry ...
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> On the Mac, if you are using an 'English' keyboard, you can hold down any letter for half a second or so and see a popup selection of alternate accented versions of that letter. Not all text editors / word processors support it but TeXShop does. No need for cut & paste templates.
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