Re: Re: calligraphic symbols (fwd)

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Christian Holm Christensen wrote:

> Hi Olivier et al,
>
> On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:40 +0100, Olivier Couet wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is on our TODO list:
> > http://couet.home.cern.ch/couet/POW_files/frame.htm.
> > That's not any easy one to do.
> > (It is to be implemented using polygons).
> ...
> > > we need to put luminosity symbol (calligraphic "L") on our plots.
> > > Does anybody know how to get this symbol in Root?
>
> How about using the Computer Modern True Type Fonts directly? See the
> LyX web-pages http://www.lyx.org/, which are provided under a fairly
> free licence. Using these fonts directly, you'll have exactly the same
> font face in your LaTeX text as on your figures - not bad at all!
>
> Yours,
>
>

Hi Christian,

 The page looks interesting. It is worth having a closer look. I read quickly the pages it says: "LyX is an advanced open source document processor running on many Unix platforms.", I hope it does not mean it only works on Linux ! if it is the case it is useless for us.  Note that ROOT already uses "True Type Fonts directly" to render text on screen. All the problems we encounter are to find the matching between TTF and PostScript/PDF fonts. "calligraphic L" has not been yet implemented because of that.

 Cheers, Olivier

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