UK TeX FAQ -- question label scriptfonts

### Better script fonts for maths

The font selected by `\``mathcal` is the only script font ‘built in’. However, there are other useful calligraphic fonts included with modern TeX distributions.

Euler
  The eucal package (part of most sensible TeX distributions; the fonts are part of the AMS font set) gives a slightly curlier font than the default. The package changes the font that is selected by `\``mathcal`.

  Type 1 versions of the fonts are available in the AMS fonts distribution.
RSFS
  The mathrsfs package uses a really fancy script font (the name stands for “Ralph Smith’s Formal Script”) which is already part of most modern TeX distributions (Type 1 versions of the font are also provided, courtesy of Taco Hoekwater). The package creates a new command `\``mathscr`.
Zapf Chancery
  is the standard PostScript calligraphic font. There is no package but you can easily make it available by means of the command

      \DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathscr}{OT1}{pzc}%
                                       {m}{it}

  in your preamble. You may find the font rather too big; if so, you can use a scaled version of it like this:

      \DeclareFontFamily{OT1}{pzc}{}
      \DeclareFontShape{OT1}{pzc}{m}{it}%
                   {<-> s * [0.900] pzcmi7t}{}
      \DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathscr}{OT1}{pzc}%
                                       {m}{it}

  Adobe Zapf Chancery (which the above examples use) is distributed in any but the most basic PostScript printers. A substantially identical font (to the extent that the same metrics may be used) is available from URW, called URW Chancery L: it is distributed with Ghostscript, and as part of the “URW base35” bundle, which is available in most distributions.

Examples of the available styles are available on CTAN.

`eucal.sty`
  Distributed as part of fonts/amsfonts (or browse the directory)
`euler fonts`
  Distributed as part of fonts/amsfonts (or browse the directory)
`ghostscript`
  Browse support/ghostscript/
`mathrsfs.sty`
  Distributed as part of macros/latex/contrib/jknappen (or browse the directory)
`rsfs fonts`
  fonts/rsfs (or browse the directory)
`Script font examples`
  info/symbols/math/scriptfonts.pdf
`URW Chancery L`
  Distributed as part of fonts/urw/base35 (or browse the directory)

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