diff --git a/latex.cabal b/latex.cabal
--- a/latex.cabal
+++ b/latex.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:             latex
-Version:          0.1.0.2
+Version:          0.1.0.3
 License:          BSD3
 License-File:     LICENSE
 Author:           Henning Thielemann <haskell@henning-thielemann.de>
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
   location: http://code.haskell.org/~thielema/latex/
 
 Source-Repository this
-  tag:      0.1.0.2
+  tag:      0.1.0.3
   type:     darcs
   location: http://code.haskell.org/~thielema/latex/
 
diff --git a/src/Text/LaTeX/Character.hs b/src/Text/LaTeX/Character.hs
--- a/src/Text/LaTeX/Character.hs
+++ b/src/Text/LaTeX/Character.hs
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@
    ("copyright", 169) :
 
    ("textbackslash", ord '\\') :
+   ("textbar", ord '|') :
    ("textasciitilde", ord '~') :
    ("textasciicircum", ord '^') :
    ("textless", ord '<') :