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Fonts and Symbols

As mathematician-authors well know, one of the more frequent stumbling blocks in getting their work on paper is a dearth of adequate math fonts. Even when one manages to obtain a font that contains the necessary symbols, it does not always follow that one's software can make proper use of it.

For help in tracking down a relevant font, try consulting the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List , http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/.

The Short Math Guide for LaTeX incorporates a smaller listing of math symbols that shows what you can expect to find available in any modern LaTeX system.

The STIX Project

The American Mathematical Society is participating, along with a number of other publishers, in a project known as the STIX Project :
The charter of the STIX project (Scientific and Technical Information eXchange) is to create one comprehensive set of fonts for scientific and technical publishing. This set of fonts should be adopted and supported by all major STM publishers, and will also be made available for general use under license but free of charge, with the explicit aim to ease and foster the uninhibited flow, exchange, and linking of scientific information.

The list of proposed symbols may be of interest, even though it will be some time yet before they are available in the form of usable fonts:

Math symbols proposed for inclusion in the Unicode character set