Different \mathcal O

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I would like to get a script O looking like this:

However, \mathcal O and \mathscr O give , which are slightly different.

This is not the pre-1992 \mathcal O.

Old versions of Computer Modern mathcal was available in old versions of Latin Modern, but the O looks nothing like the one you are showing (the changes were minor, see what happened to the F). Your O is more like a variant of mathscr so you could look at "English Script" fonts on a site like myfonts to see if you find something similar (for example, English 111 is a bit closer). From which book(s) does it come from ?
Hartshorne's Algebraic Geometry uses it on page 69. It also appears in an old (pre-TeX) article (I'll try to upload a scan tomorrow) which also has a very exotic script A.
OK, that's the script used on monotype machines which you can see in the books about monotype technology (e.g. Chaundy's The Printing of Mathematics or Monotype's List of Mathematical Characters for 4-line mathematics). I'm not sure it's available as a digital font, though. I'll upload a scan later on for you to see. Fonts called Commercial Script come close, but it's not quite that yet.
@YuriDelanghe This questions seems borderline for TeX.sx. As far as I can see, you want a particular font which we have no idea has ever been available as a TeX font. At the very least it would be useful to know the source of your graphic.
@JosephWright Yes, I hadn't realized that Hartshorne might be non-TeX.

Boris · Answer 1 · 2011-12-08 03:16:08Z

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\mathscr{O} from Euler package is thinner than the one from mathrsfs, which you obviously use:

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{euler}
\begin{document}
$\mathscr{O}$
\end{document}

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edited Dec 8 '11 at 3:16

answered Dec 8 '11 at 3:10

Boris
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	Still different than the one above, though... I'm looking for that specific O. – Yuri Delanghe Dec 8 '11 at 3:31
	Then scan it, and insert the picture. Unless you can provide us some insight as to which font this is, there is not much we can do. – Jean-Christophe Dubacq Dec 8 '11 at 10:22

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