How to get the lowercase calligraphic symbols?
Three fonts have lowercase calligraphic letters and a bold version, and a LaTeX package to use them:
bickham
adapted for LaTeX from Adobe'sBickham Script Pro
opentype font,boondox
(with a variantboondox-o
) (adapted from theBOONDOXCalligraphic
STIX font),dutchcal
adapted fromESSTIX
math calligraphic font.
In addition the mathabx
package has a mathc
calligraphic font (in version normal
only), but I couldn't make it work.
Here a demo:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
%\usepackage{bickham}
\usepackage{boondox-cal}
%\usepackage{boondox-calo}
% \usepackage{dutchcal}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}%
\textbf{%
% Bickham
Boondox :
% Boondox-o
% Dutchcal
}%
\[ \begin{array}[t]{c@{\quad}c}
\verb+ \mathcal + & \verb+ \mathbcal + \\[6pt]
\mathcal{Em} & \mathbcal{Ln}
\end{array} \]%
\end{document}
If it is only about the caligraphic l
(which you mentioned in the question), then you can use \ell
. This is often used to avoid confusion between the letter l
and the number 1
. Remember that you have to use \boldsymbol{}
to print (well..) bold symbols instead of \mathbf{}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
$1 \mathbf{1} \quad l \mathbf{l} \quad \ell \boldsymbol{\ell}$
\end{document}
If it is more general and not only about l
, then see the question linked by @barbara beeton