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Re: Lagrangian/Hamiltonian symbols

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From: Tom Marchioro
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:47
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In <9JAN199321330879@oregon.uoregon.edu> npreyer@oregon.uoregon.edu (Norris Preyer) writes:

>I've lost the name of a nice font I once used for script L and H
>symbols; can anyone suggest an alternative?

There are several possibilities around (I need these symbols as a theoretical
physicist, and also need the "script Dee" for functional integration measures.)
One good possibility is rsfs10 (Ralph Smith's formal script) which was created
by a physicist and does a fairly nice job.  It can be found on most of the 
regular archives, and in particular it is on labrea.stanford.edu (36.8.0.47)
as (I think) rsfs.shar (I shoudl know since I arranged to put it there :(

That file is shell archive which will have to be unpacked and metafont run
to make the pk fonts.  If that is not satisfactory drop me a note and I should
be able to roust up a complete set of .pk files in Apple LW mode.  More 
exotic modes you're on your own.

There are several good postscript fonts for these characters as well.  One
really nice set is in MathematicalPi-Two from Adobe, but the font encoding
is completely wrong for TeX, so to use the characters you have to literally
call them "by hand" one at a time.  For "Dee" it's not so bad since you 
almost never need the script or scriptscript sizes, but for Aitch and Ell
it's something of a pain.  Still, if you take the time the results are much
nicer.

Anyone know of other choices?

TLM
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