[OS X TeX] Using STIX for a single font

[Michael Sharpe]

> On Jun 14, 2015, at 7:55 AM, David Derbes <loki at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
> Long story, not to bore you, but I would really like a lower-case script math p. There is one in STIX, stix-mathscr. I don’t want the fonts of the document (a book) to be STIX, but I would love to use this one character. I’ve tried the following, but it doesn’t work:
> 
> in the preamble:
> 
> \usepackage[notext,nomath]{stix}
> 
> and in the document
> 
> \begin{equation}
> |\mathbf{p}| = {\fontfamily{stix-mathscr}\selectfont p}
> \end{equation}
> 
> but all I get is |\mathbf{p}| = p
> 
> where p is the usual math font for p.
> 
> I’ve tried loading the package both before and after \amsmath. No luck. My guess is that I’m invoking the font change incorrectly. Any help would be most welcome, and I apologize for what is probably an elementary question.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> David Derbes
> U of Chicago Lab Schools
> 

One way to do this to add to your preamble, after loading other math packages,

\usepackage[scr=boondox]{mathalfa}

Then \mathscr{p} gives you STIX script math p.

Michael