text mode of a latex symbol \mathfrak s not found

Question

hi i need the text mode of a latex symbol, in a reference pdf doc i found the exact symbol

which is categorized under "text" category. attached the screenshot of the pdf. i need a

different output of \mathfrak s

Answer 1

The table snippet you show seems to imply that there's a canonical representation of Fraktur in text and in math. This isn't true.

There are some fonts in Fraktur style available; one of them (available with the yfonts package) happens to print the ‘s’ as in the left column (the one marked by you), another one (Euler Fraktur, provided by the AMS) has no terminal swash.

Here's a way to produce the two glyphs.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{yfonts}

\begin{document}
\textfrak{s:} is not the same
as $\mathfrak{s}$, because
they use different fonts.
\end{document}

Answer 2

I've probably found the symbol you are looking for:

The command to obtain it is \mfraks and requires xits-math font and unicode-math package, which implies you have to compile with xelatex or lualatex.

MWE:

% arara: xelatex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{xits-math.otf}

\begin{document}
$\mfraks$
\end{document} 

Answer 3

I suppose you are asking for the plain text equivalent of \mathfrak{s}. It is U+1D530 MATHEMATICAL FRAKTUR SMALL S. Note that it is outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), which may cause problems in processing it in many programs (as it has to represented as a surrogate pair in UTF-16). Moreover, font support is very limited.