Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ standard mathcal with mathdesign

[dnemoc]

Hi!

I've been trying to use standard mathcal letters with mathdesign-garamond. Mathdesign apparently overloads mathcal with a set of letters resembling the mathscr letters. I tried to do the following:

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\usepackage[urw-garamond, greekuppercase=upright, greeklowercase=italicized, sfscaled=true, ttscaled=true]{mathdesign}
\DeclareMathAlphabet{\mathcal}{OMS}{cmsy}{m}{n}

but pdfLaTeX says that mathcal is already defined. Is there a way to use standard mathcal letters with mathdesign?

Best regards, and thanks a lot.
- D.

[dnemoc]

Found two possible solutions after some experimentation:

1. Simply adding

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\usepackage[mathcal]{eucal}

after loading mathdesign works pretty well if one is satisfied with somewhat nonstandard (euscript) mathcal.

2. Adding

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\DeclareSymbolFont{usualmathcal}{OMS}{cmsy}{m}{n}
\DeclareSymbolFontAlphabet{\mathcal}{usualmathcal}

after loading mathdesign produces standard mathcal with mathdesign.

[john_perry]

It isn't in the documentation for some reason, but while I was looking at the source code for mathdesign.sty, I discovered that:

• mathdesign creates a new math script font;
• it deliberately conflates this font with the calligraphic font (the documentation does hint at this); and
• an undocumented option turns it off!

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  \usepackage[garamond,cal=cmcal]{mathdesign}

I wonder why he didn't put that in the documentation. The other option for cal is script, which substitutes the script for the traditional calligraphic font---but this is the default.