I realize similar questions have been asked before but I am not satisfied with any of the answers I've seen. I would like to use the Cyrillic letter Ш
to denote a particular group in mathematics. Most solutions involve using OT2
or T2A
encoding; for example, at http://math.berkeley.edu/~vojta/tex/samp-l/sha.html. However, this makes the other text in the document look bad.
For example, using the solution above, I get
while I would like to have
The first seems to be shaded strangely and the characters don't seem to align right.
Does anyone know how I can write the character Ш
(in math mode) without changing the default font for the rest of the text?
Best Answer
for someone who wants to use just one or two cyrillic letters in math, in a computer modern setting, the old
wncy
fonts are still distributed in tex live as part of theamsfonts
collection, in type 1 format. (but they don't require use of theamsfonts
package.)this is the recommendation in the ams author faq.
the user's guide can be accessed with
texdoc amsfonts
ortexdoc amsfndoc
.