[OS X TeX] Using STIX for a single font

David Derbes loki at uchicago.edu
Sun Jun 14 12:23:57 EDT 2015


Apologies, particularly to Michael.

I had stupidly put in \usepackage{stix} in the (very long) preamble. I’ll try again!

DD

On Jun 14, 2015, at 11:18, David Derbes <loki at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> I am afraid that things got much worse.
> 
> I did this, and the entire document font changed to STIX (I think.) That was what I was trying to avoid. I would really like to get Computer Modern back. So I deleted the \usepackage[mathalfa}{boondox}. No change to the appearance of the document.
> 
> I had to comment out \usepackage{mathrfsr} to get the document to compile. So I uncommented that. And now, LaTeX cannot find mathrfsr.sty.
> 
> What happened? Can I get back to where I was? Did the invocation of \boondox somehow clobber the \mathrfsr package?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> David Derbes
> 
> On Jun 14, 2015, at 11:01, Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> 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
>> 
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