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Symbol for Lagrangian L

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Jordan

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Oct 2, 2004, 3:11:11 PM10/2/04
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Running Latex, have AMSMath package

I'm trying to figure out how to make the capital cursif L that is
commonly used to represent a Lagrangian function.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Jordan

José Carlos Santos

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Oct 2, 2004, 3:22:40 PM10/2/04
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Jordan wrote:

> Running Latex, have AMSMath package
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to make the capital cursif L that is
> commonly used to represent a Lagrangian function.

Type \mathcal{L}. If you don't like the result, you'll find other
possibilities at the FAQ:

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=scriptfonts

Best regards,

Jose Carlos Santos

Jordan

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Oct 3, 2004, 7:18:33 AM10/3/04
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YES! That's precisely what I was looking for. Thanks for your help!

José Carlos Santos <jcsa...@fc.up.pt> wrote in message news:<2s8dejF...@uni-berlin.de>...

marcusv...@gmail.com

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Aug 12, 2020, 8:21:03 PM8/12/20
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I had this same problem. thanks for the solution.
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