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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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Declaring a newcommand for a single letter in mathcal
I am trying to enter a command that references the \mathcal font for single letter in LaTeX. Below is what I am trying and it doesn't seem to work, would appreciate any help.
\newcommand {\until} ...
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List of unsuitable fonts
It seems that the actual answer to this question is "It's up to you". However I often read in tex.SE some comments that oppose the usage of certain fonts, in somehow an absolute character. That ...
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\cal messes up the math mode
How come when I use this code with beamer
\begin{block}{Misadjustment}
$$ \cal{M} = \frac{1-\lambda}{2}\sigma_v^2 M + \frac{1}{2(1-\lambda)}tr[\mathbf{RQ}] $$
\end{block}
results in this:
But ...
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Setup font size of different types to be the same
For mathematical documents i like using the fourier package with the upright option, however the symbols \mathcal produces are quite too quirky in my opinion, so I replaced them with the default font ...
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Are there two different versions of the \mathcal{F} character?
I've seen two different versions of the \mathcal{F} character:
Version 1:
Version 2:
Notice that the top horizontal line of the F curves down on the left much more in version 1 than it does in ...
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Bold calligraphic typeface
I know \mathcal{ABC...}, but can't seem to bold these - thanks for help - PMF
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How to use \mathcal with subscript? Undefined control sequence..
I am trying to have a cursively written l (L) with a subscript A. I tried this:
If A has a straight line $\matchcal{l\subscript{A}}$
But I'm getting undefined control sequence. Why is this?
