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Index with accented letters

I'm trying to typeset the following $Q_å=l_å \cdot m$ But LaTeX won't typeset these special or accented letters in my document! Is there a simple way to achieve this?
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LaTeX font for 'old-fashioned' script characters

Browsing through a copy of Counterexamples in Analysis (Gelbaum & Olmsted), I'm quite enjoying the typeface used for 'script' letters (see links to examples below); visually it's somewhere ...
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Formatting capital letters in math mode

This is perhaps a simple question, but I would like to print a capital I in my LaTeX document (beamer specifically) inside a $...$ construct. I would like my I to appear more substantial by having ...
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Bold , italic (and sans-serif) math symbols

I would like to implement the suggestions in the TUGboat 30:3, 2009 about the upright/italic and bold/normal in scalars, vectors and tensors. All this is about math. I use this font: ...
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Is there a nice way to make a strikethrough for the square subset character in LaTeX?

I am working on some math that uses the square subset notation. I need a good way to strikethrough the character in LaTeX. I have tried using the package "cancel" but the strikethrough it produces ...
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Missing $ inserted

I am new to latex. I am trying to compile someone else's document. I have all the correct packages installed, but I get the following error: *Overfull \hbox <37.8394pt too wide> in paragraph ...