[math-font-discuss] Ye Olde LaTeX math font?

Rayne Olivetti rayneolivetti at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 18 03:55:17 CET 2008


I noticed that Griffiths' elementary particles book uses a different type of font in math typesetting, akin to pre-LaTeX era (the one as in Feynman Lectures on Physics or Mary Boas' Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, 2nd ed.), instead of usual LaTeX. Check out the images below; se-griffiths.jpg, is Schrödinger equation from that book. I also added typed the LaTeX version below it. Notice how different the psi and hbar are, aside from an overall style shift. 

Griffiths' image: http://img160.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=06645_se-griff_122_678lo.jpg
and the LaTeX one: http://img12.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_07718_latex_122_947lo.jpg

So, anyone knows how to "emulate" the Ye Olde Typesetting in LaTeX? Do I need some additional packages or what?

Thanks in advance.




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