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

Lance Carnes lcarnes at pctex.com
Tue Mar 18 21:09:30 CET 2008


Attached is a pdf showing how it looks with 
MathTime Professional 2 fonts.  For more info see http://pctex.com/mtpro2.html

Lance

At 06:55 PM 3/17/2008, Rayne Olivetti 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.
>
>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
>
>So, anyone knows how to "emulate" the Ye Olde 
>Typesetting in LaTeX? Do I need some additional packages or what?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
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