# [OS X TeX] Calligraphic font

R Martinez rm.tech at mac.com
Tue Nov 29 08:47:29 CET 2011

All,

I wrote previously about using the TeX Gyre Chorus font.

I may have found a substitute that does what I want and thought that this information would be of interest to the list, so here it goes.

I found the hint of the solution to my problem in http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=scriptfonts.

What I want is to use \mathcal command to render a calligraphic font that has the embellishments of the Chancery font. The following command does what I want.

\DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathcal}{OT1}{pzc}{m}{it}

I find the letters a bit small, but I can live with them. All comments and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Happy Holidays,

Raul Martinez

The test document follows.

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\documentclass[12pt]{article}

%-------Packages----------------------------------------

\usepackage{lmodern}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}

\DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathcal}{OT1}{pzc}{m}{it}

%-------------------------------------------------------

\begin{document}

%-------Title-------------------------------------------

\title{Mathcal Font Test}
\date{28 November 2011}

\maketitle

%------------------------------------------------------
\section{Mathcal font}

Letters produced using the command \\ \\backslash$mathcal\{A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z\}\$ \\

Mathcal command\\

$\mathcal{A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z}$ \\

These letters closely resemble those shown in

Kopka and Daly, Guide to LaTeX, 4th ed., p. 127.

\end{document}