[math-font-discuss] Ye Olde LaTeX math font?

[Ari Stern]

While I have no idea what package(s) Griffith used, you can get about
90% of the way there pretty easily.  First, this looks like a
Times-ish font, not Computer Modern (which is the (La)TeX default).
Try putting \usepackage{mathptmx} or \usepackage[varg]{txfonts} in the
preamble to switch to Times.  Next, replace the \hbar with an \hslash
to get the upward-sloping (rather than horizontal) bar across your h.

Try as I might, though, I couldn't get anything that looked remotely
like that \psi character.  Who knows ... it might be a commercial math
font, or even just some characters taken from a "symbol" font.  Anyone
else have a clue?  (Then again, you could always email the man
himself: http://academic.reed.edu/physics/faculty/griffiths.html.)

Finally, you should definitely check out the "Survey of Free Math
Fonts for TeX and LaTeX," which provides a good comparison of several
widely-used packages that are probably already in your TeX
distribution: http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/Free_Math_Font_Survey/survey.html

Cheers,
Ari

On 17/03/2008, Rayne Olivetti <rayneolivetti at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I noticed that Griffiths' elementary particles book uses a different type of font in math typesetting, akin to pre-LaTeX era (the one as in Feynman Lectures on Physics or Mary Boas' Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, 2nd ed.), instead of usual LaTeX. Check out the images below; se-griffiths.jpg, is Schrödinger equation from that book. I also added typed the LaTeX version below it. Notice how different the psi and hbar are, aside from an overall style shift.
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>  Griffiths' image: http://img160.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=06645_se-griff_122_678lo.jpg
>  and the LaTeX one: http://img12.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=th_07718_latex_122_947lo.jpg
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>  So, anyone knows how to "emulate" the Ye Olde Typesetting in LaTeX? Do I need some additional packages or what?
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>  Thanks in advance.
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