[texhax] Latex symbols

[Axel E. Retif]

On  20 Jun, 2007, at 03:11, Jan Rohde wrote:

>> From: "Axel E. Retif" <axretif at igo.com.mx>
>> To: William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com>
>> CC: TeXhax <texhax at tug.org>, Jan Rohde <janrohde66 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [texhax] Latex symbols
>> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:37:51 -0500
>>
>> On  19 Jun, 2007, at 07:30, William Adams wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 19, 2007, at 5:49 AM, Jan Rohde wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to find the latex command for two symbols I need for a
>>>> project, but have so far not been able to find them. I hope someone
>>>> on this list has seen them before and can help me out
>>>>
>>>> Symbols are shown in the picture
>>>
>>> Well they look to be Zapf Chancery-like:
>>>
>>> \documentclass{article}
>>> \usepackage{chancery}
>>> \begin{document}
>>> \emph{y}
>>>
>>> $\mathcal{Z}$
>>> \end{document}
>>>
>>> But the ``y'' is a bit off --- looks more like Monotype Corsiva (a
>>> Zapf Chancery knock-off).
>>
>> In your example, \mathcal{Z} is taken from Computer Modern  
>> Symbol,  because
>> chancery.sty just redefines roman default to pzc family (the   
>> ``y'' does
>> come indeed from URW Chancery).
>>
>> So, Jan's ``Z'' seems to me just Computer Modern calligraphy Z,  
>> but I  have
>> no idea either from which font his ``y'' comes from.
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Axel
>
> Thank you for all your replies,
>
> you are correct about the use of \mathcal{} for "Z". \mathcal{} also
> produced the desired font for "Y".

So it was a capital ``Y''! I thought it was a lowercase ``y''! No  
wonder we could not figure out which font could produce that ``y''.

Best,

Axel