alternative mathcal font?

Jon Manley

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Jun 12, 2001, 12:50:20 PM6/12/01

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I'm setting a book that the author insists uses script fonts identical to
the one he has used. Problem is he has used something called 'Formal Script'
within a MS Word doc. Is there an equivalent font available for LaTeX2e? If
so, where can I obtain it from? (I don't mind buying it!)

thx in advance

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Jon Manley

Rupert Levene

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Jun 12, 2001, 7:45:53 PM6/12/01

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Jon Manley wrote:
>
> I'm setting a book that the author insists uses script fonts identical to
> the one he has used. Problem is he has used something called 'Formal Script'
> within a MS Word doc. Is there an equivalent font available for LaTeX2e? If
> so, where can I obtain it from? (I don't mind buying it!)

I expect that you'd be able to get the font the author originally used
working under latex. If it's a truetype font you can get pointers on how
to do this for body fonts at

http://www.radamir.com/tex/ttf-tex.htm

and then you'll have to do some wizardry that I know nothing of (but
many people here do) to get tex to see it as a math font.

rupert

Donald Arseneau

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Jun 12, 2001, 10:20:25 PM6/12/01

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Rupert Levene <rh...@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> > I'm setting a book that the author insists uses script fonts identical to
> > the one he has used. Problem is he has used something called 'Formal Script'
> > within a MS Word doc. Is there an equivalent font available for LaTeX2e? If
> > so, where can I obtain it from? (I don't mind buying it!)

Use the formal script font that MS Word installs.

If you can use any old formal script, use rsfs which comes
with many Tex installations (Ralph Simon's Formal Script).
There are useful LaTeX packages called mathrsfs and calrsfs
or some such.

Donald Arseneau as...@triumf.ca

Jon Manley

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Jun 13, 2001, 4:16:42 AM6/13/01

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Excellent!
Thanks for this---huge problem solved
calrsfs.sty did the trick

Jon

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Louis Vosloo

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Jun 17, 2001, 10:57:05 AM6/17/01

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Jon Manley wrote:

> I'm setting a book that the author insists uses script fonts identical to
> the one he has used. Problem is he has used something called 'Formal Script'
> within a MS Word doc. Is there an equivalent font available for LaTeX2e? If
> so, where can I obtain it from? (I don't mind buying it!)

Apparently you have MathTime Complete.
In that case use MathScript http://www.yandy.com/art/mtls.gif,
a Script font that is not overly curly.

Alternatively consider RSFS http://www.yandy.com/art/rsfs.gif
a more traditional, but very thin and curly face.

Note that Knuth did not need Script, only Calligraphic, so
CM only has the latter. As a result TeX users have often
used Calligraphic where traditionally Script is appropriate.

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Richard Bumby

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Jun 19, 2001, 1:14:09 PM6/19/01

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Louis Vosloo <sup...@YandY.com> writes:

>Jon Manley wrote:

>> I'm setting a book that the author insists uses script fonts identical to
>> the one he has used. Problem is he has used something called 'Formal Script'
>> within a MS Word doc. Is there an equivalent font available for LaTeX2e? If
>> so, where can I obtain it from? (I don't mind buying it!)

>...

>Note that Knuth did not need Script, only Calligraphic, so
>CM only has the latter. As a result TeX users have often
>used Calligraphic where traditionally Script is appropriate.

This is a little off-topic, but the comment about script
vs. calligraphic reminded me of something that bothered me during my
term as editor. There is a special form of upper case L used in all
textbooks to designate "Laplace traceform". I was never able to find
a suitable replacement in any of the fonts I had, although I settled
on something that I would use consistently in the Monthly "Problems
and Solutions" after I started typesetting it in TeX. (When we were
still using traditional typesetting, this L was once replaced by the
symbol for Pounds Sterling.)

Is there a standard font that includes a suitable L?

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Scott Pakin

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Jun 20, 2001, 2:00:51 AM6/20/01

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Richard Bumby wrote:
> There is a special form of upper case L used in all
> textbooks to designate "Laplace traceform".

.
.
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> Is there a standard font that includes a suitable L?

Have you checked out rsfs (Ralph Simon's Formal Script),
which was alluded to elsewhere in this thread? That
might be what you're looking for. rsfs is freely
available from CTAN (http://www.ctan.org).

-- Scott