Usually when we write equations, we tend to use:
- Italicized roman font, for symbols:
$a, b, c$
. - Non-italicized roman font, for text
$a_\text{in}, \mathrm{hello}$
- Boldface symbols for, well, emphasis (sometimes also for matrices or vectors:
$\mathbf{P} \subseteq \mathbf{NP}$
- Sans-serif text
$\mathsf{}$
- Calligraphic
$\mathcal{}
$ - Small-caps
$\mathsf{}
$ - Fixed-width/monospace
$\mathtt{}
$
So, in this paper I'm writing, regular text is taken up by, well, the text of the paper; I don't want to use boldface since I'm not emphasizing, and there are two kinds of constructs for which I use sans-serif and small-caps respectively. I also use $\texttt$ for typesetting fragments of computer program code (and these sometimes go in equations/formulas).
Since $\mathcal$ and $\mathfrak$ are good mostly for single-letter symbols rather than for complete words, I find myself in need of another style.
I want to be able to write The quick brown fox jumped over $\magichere{dogs} \cap \magichere{lazy}$
and for "dogs" to be "text-ish", but not look like a continuation of the sentence. \magichere
is what I'm missing of course.
I've been wondering - is there some other font style, or even a different font, I could use for a third kind of constructs in my paper? Perhaps another roman fonts which is different than the paper body, on one hand, but does not seem out-of-place on the other?
\mathtt
is one possibility or you could choose a script font more designed for complete words any handwriting font for example or\mathfrak
or ...\mathsf
definitely doesn't produce small-caps; instead, it produces math-mode sans-serif output.\text
and\mathrm
reversed. "hello" is logically\text
, and `\mathrm' should be used for things like subscript indicators that aren't variables.