Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ switching between fonts

[bazman]

Hi there,

I am using Latex to produce a document that is quite math heavy.

As part of this I want to be able to use the calligra font shown here:

http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/calligr ... fonts.html

However looking at the documentation here you can onnly turn it on and off for sections of the document.

http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-1/schmidt/schmidt.pdf

I simply want to be able to use calligra one letter at a time using a syntax similar to mathcal{} is this possible

[localghost]

I have taken a look at the package file itself and found out that using this font is easier than expected. The package defines two new commands which appear very familiar.

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\calligra            % Enable the font generally
\textcalligra{text}  % For certain parts of text

With regard to what you want to do, the second command is exactly what you need. Consider the following example.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{calligra}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \blindtext

  \bigskip
  \textcalligra{blindtext}

  \bigskip
  \blindtext

  \bigskip
  \calligra
  \blindtext
\end{document}

In the Font Catalogue you can click on the font name to see a sample together with the according code [1]. But unfortunately the second command is not introduced.

Be aware of the fact that when using this command for a single character you will have to do a kind of italic correction because letters in this font are very italicized.

[1] The LaTeX Font Catalogue - Calligra



Best regards
Thorsten