Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ A strange math symbol

[zhangtpku]

Could anyone please tell me how to type the letter after "disjoint sets of"? Thanks in advance!

[Boersma]

Hi,

that is quite difficult to find: I assume that it is an enlarged, non-capital, '\mathcal'-letter 'a'. But that does not exists. Of course, you could change it simply to a symbol $\mathcal{A}$.
Do you know the detexify recognition-site: detexify?
Or otherwise: list of symbols

The last option I would say, is combining it, due to something like: $\mathcal{C}$\!\!\emph{\i}, but that is really ugly.

Greetings,
Boersma

[zhangtpku]

Thanks very much Boersma!

The website is extremely helpful, although I did not find this strange thing. I also tried the comprehensive table and did not find it.

I also asked in other forums and someone said this might be an obsolete package of $\mathscr{A}$. This might be true because there are a lot of mathscr letters in the book such as B,C,D,E,F,G, but no $\mathscr{A}$.

Hi,

that is quite difficult to find: I assume that it is an enlarged, non-capital, '\mathcal'-letter 'a'. But that does not exists. Of course, you could change it simply to a symbol $\mathcal{A}$.
Do you know the detexify recognition-site: detexify?
Or otherwise: list of symbols

The last option I would say, is combining it, due to something like: $\mathcal{C}$\!\!\emph{\i}, but that is really ugly.

Greetings,
Boersma

[cgnieder]

I also asked in other forums

Hi zhangtpku. Please provide use with links to these forums. Our board rules state in section 4.1 (highlighted by me):

A crossposting is always contra-productive. But there is nothing really against it as long as it is mentioned. This means that a direct link has to be added. So other users who want to help are preserved from double efforts and waste of time.

Regards

[zhangtpku]

http://bbs.ctex.org/forum.php?mod=viewt ... #pid439425 The link of the other forum, though unfortunately in Chinese