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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/urwchancal/urwchancal-doc.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/urwchancal/urwchancal-doc.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d2a44f28f51 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/urwchancal/urwchancal-doc.tex @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +\documentclass[11pt]{article} +\usepackage[margin=1.25in]{geometry} +\usepackage[parfill]{parskip} % Activate to begin paragraphs with an empty line rather than an indent +\usepackage{graphicx} +\DeclareFontFamily{OT1}{pzc}{} +\DeclareFontShape{OT1}{pzc}{m}{it}% + {<-> s * [1.2] pzcmi7t}{} +\DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathpzc}{OT1}{pzc}{m}{it} +\usepackage[scaled=1.15]{urwchancal} +\title{A virtual font for URW Chancery Math} +\author{Michael Sharpe\\msharpe at ucsd dot edu} +%\date{} % Activate to display a given date or no date + +\begin{document} +\maketitle +The URW clone of the universally available PostScript font Zapf Chancery may be used as a math calligraphic font by means of the following lines in the preamble: +\begin{verbatim} +\DeclareFontFamily{OT1}{pzc}{} +\DeclareFontShape{OT1}{pzc}{m}{it}% + {<-> s * [1.2] pzcmi7t}{} +\DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathpzc}{OT1}{pzc}{m}{it} +\end{verbatim} +The results are not always good if you attach math accents or sub-/super-scripts, as the following fragment shows. The display below is the result of +\begin{verbatim} +\[A^2_k\quad\mathpzc{M}_1\hat{\mathpzc{C}}\mathpzc{\hat{C}}\mathpzc{M}_k^2\] +\end{verbatim} + + +(Computer Modern (cmmi10) A followed by URW Chancery:)\\ +\[A^2_k\quad\mathpzc{M}_1\hat{\mathpzc{C}}\mathpzc{\hat{C}} \mathpzc{M}_k^2\] +(The accents are not always where you might expect, letters may inexplicably vanish, and spacing of subscripts and superscripts can be unpredictable.) + +This small package provides a virtual math font linked to \verb|uzcmi8r| with side-bearings, subscript position and accent position adjusted manually for each glyph. +Following +\begin{verbatim} +\usepackage[scaled=1.15]{urwchancal} +\end{verbatim} + which redefines \verb|\mathcal| to output URW Chancery glyphs, the input line +\begin{verbatim} +\[A=\bar{\mathcal{M}}^2_k+\hat{\mathcal{Z}}.\] +\end{verbatim} +yields +\[A=\bar{\mathcal{M}}^2_k+\hat{\mathcal{Z}}.\] +In addition to \verb|scaled|, there is on option \verb|mathscr|, which enables \verb|\mathscr| rather than \verb|\mathcal| to point to URW Chancery. + +The long tails on some of the glyphs make this font problematic as a math font, but it has some virtues, not the least being its universal availability. For a font of similar appearance without the long-tail problems, consider the script font in Mathematica5. +\end{document}
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