Math & Science ⇒ Polish "ł" in Math Mode

[Drwonmug]

I would like to use Polish (dark) ł or Ł -- \l or \L in text -- in mat hmode, but things like \textstyle{\l} don't work.

Are there any standard (or nonstandard) workarounds for this?

Thanks to all,

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[localghost]

You can try something like this.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{selinput}  % Semi-automatic determination
\SelectInputMappings{  % of input encoding by
  cacute={ć},          % a list of selected glyphs
  lslash={ł}           % see: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/opentype/glyphlist.txt
}
\usepackage{mathtools} % loads »amsmath«

\begin{document}
  \[
    \text{ł}
  \]
\end{document}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Drwonmug]

Dear Thorsten-san

Many thanks for your help and advice. This works; but I'm hoping to post the
resulting document on the arXiv, and I'm afraid it may balk at the packages
required. Is anything more elementary available?

Best, sincerely

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[cgnieder]

[...] I'm hoping to post the
resulting document on the arXiv, and I'm afraid it may balk at the packages
required. Is anything more elementary available?

amsmath which provides the \text{} macro is the math package and everyone doing any serious math is (and should be) using it. You can't get much more basic than that, really. I wouldn't worry too much. amsmath is the long time successor of amstex which stems from a time before LaTeX.

Regards

[Drwonmug]

Perfectamento! Outstanding!

Just what the Dr ordered!!

Many thanks

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