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dylan@cyllene.uwa.edu.au (Dylan Jayatilaka) writes:

> 
> Hello.
> 
> I would like to be able to print a curly "H". I don't mean 
> the symbol {\cal H}, but one that looks more like copperplate.
> 
> Can anyone tell me 
> 
> a) where to find the name of the font that is like this,
>    or a simple way to find out what actual TeX fonts look like, 
>    rather than looking at lots of meaningless names like cmtti10,
> 
> b) how to put it into my latex distribution (if not already there).
> 
> I am using Thomas Essers teTeX distribution on a Unix machine, so
> maybe the fonts are already there, I just don't know how to acees them
> by name.

The fonts you want are a script font and are supplied by the Ralph
Smith Formal Script fonts.  These _may_ be supplied with the teTeX
distribution, I don't know for sure.  If they are available you can
use them simply by using Joerg Knappen's mathrsfs package:

\usepackage{mathrsfs}

and then using commands such as 

$\mathscr{H} = \ldots$

If this does not work I suspect you don't have this package and may
not have the fonts.  To obtain both use anonymous ftp to a CTAN server
or mirror, such as ctan.unsw.edu.au and then use commands such as the
following to obtain them:

cd /tex-archive/fonts
bin
get rsfs.tar  (or rsfs.zip or rsfs.tar.gz)

cd /tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/jknappen
asc
mget mathrsfs.*

Since I am not familiar with the teTeX distribution (I keep trying to
get our system administrator to update our TeX distribution) I am not
sure where the various files should be put.  However, the *.mf files
should end up somewhere in the MFINPUTS path, while the *.sty files
should end up in the TEXINPUTS path.

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