Using different encodings at the same time

Question

I need to write a letter which looks like the small greek epsilon but in large (like a capital). I found on page 17 of this document the possibility of using \m{E} for it, which comes close enough. But that is only possible with the T4 encoding of fontec, but i want to use the T1. I tried using both encodings at the same time with

\usepackage[T1]{fontec}
\usepackage[T4]{fontec}

and this try with T4 first and also with \usepackage[T1,T4]{fontec} with T4 also first and than T1. But TexMaker uses always the last called encoding (T4 in this example) and gives me an error (\m not found in T1) with T1 as the last called argument.

So is there any possibility of using this letter? Or does someone have a different solution?

Thanks

Answer 1

You don't want T4, for which only bitmap fonts are available. A similar glyph is in the Cyrillic encoding T2B.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T2B,T1]{fontenc}

\DeclareTextSymbol{\Bigeps}{T2B}{"9B}
\DeclareTextSymbolDefault{\Bigeps}{T2B}

\begin{document}

E\Bigeps E

\end{document}

You can also input the character directly: it is U+0510 CYRILLIC REVERSED ZE.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T2B,T1]{fontenc}

\DeclareTextSymbol{\Bigeps}{T2B}{"9B}
\DeclareTextSymbolDefault{\Bigeps}{T2B}

\DeclareUnicodeCharacter{0510}{\Bigeps}

\begin{document}

E\Bigeps E

EԐE

\end{document}

Answer 2

You can access T4 just for that letter, although currently the T4 encoding is not available as scalable fonts:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T4,T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}

AB{\fontencoding{T4}\selectfont\m{E}}C
\end{document}