[OS X TeX] Mathcal fonts

[Michael Sharpe]

On Nov 28, 2011, at 10:13 AM, R Martinez wrote:

> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> 
> %-------Packages----------------------------------------
> 
> \usepackage{lmodern}
> \usepackage{amsmath, amssymb,amsthm}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> 
> 
> 
> 
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{mathrsfs}
> \usepackage{textcomp}
> \usepackage{xspace}
> 
> %-------------------------------------------------------
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> %-------Title-------------------------------------------
> 
> \title{Mathcal Font Test}
> \date{27 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\}\$ \\
> 
> $\mathcal{A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z}$ \\
> 
> These letters are not identical to those shown in
> 
> Kopka and Daly, Guide to LaTeX, 4th ed., p. 127.\\
> 
> The letters A, C, E are identical to those shown in
> 
> Gratzer, More Math Into LaTeX, 4th ed., p. 197.\\
> 
> I prefer the letters shown in Kopka and Daly because they have more embellishments, which I need for my purposes.\\
> 
> I will greatly appreciate suggestions about how to get the mathcal fonts to be the ones shown in Kopka and Daly.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> \end{document}


The letters show in Kopka and Daly are from Zapf Calligrapic, not Latin (or Computer) Modern. To get these in place of LM, replace the line

\usepackage{mathrsfs}
with
\usepackage[cal=zapfc,calscaled=1.15,,scr=rsfs]{mathalfa}

There are other choices of mathcal available Seee the samples in the documentation for mathalfa.

Michael