The commands
$\mathcal{\mbox{$M$}}$
and
\mbox{$\mathcal{M}$}
produce different output. I would like a replacement for \mbox that creates a box preserving all features of the current font in math mode. How can I do this?
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4Welcome to TeX.SX! Can you give us a good use case? – Andrew Swann Nov 9 '14 at 16:50
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Please always post complete documents:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\begin{document}
$\mathcal{\count0=\fam\mbox{$\fam=\count0 M$}}$
\end{document}
answered Nov 9 '14 at 17:08
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That works perfectly; thank you. I'll post complete documents in the future. – Jonathan Wise Nov 9 '14 at 19:27
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2@JonathanWise why do you want this by the way? hard to think of any time it would be useful compared to just using
\mathcal{M}– David Carlisle Nov 9 '14 at 20:35 -
I am trying to make a version of \overline and \underline that looks right on slanted characters. – Jonathan Wise Nov 9 '14 at 20:40
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I discovered today that \count0 also stores the page number, so I used \count@ instead. – Jonathan Wise Nov 19 '14 at 15:30
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You can use the similar commands \mathmbox or \mathmakebox provided by the mathtools package.
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2If I have understood the OP correctly, he wants to have
\mathcal{M}as result, but\mathcal{\mathmbox{M}}gives the other M. – Heiko Oberdiek Jul 4 '15 at 5:38
