I just want to write \Sha without ruining everything
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 the amsfonts
collection, in type 1 format. (but they don't require use of the amsfonts
package.)
this is the recommendation in the ams author faq.
I want to use some cyrillic letters for math variables, but there isn't any LaTeX support for cyrillic in the AMSfonts packages. How do I do it?
The following four lines will load the upright cyrillic font and define
\Sh
to access the letter "Sha".\DeclareFontFamily{U}{wncy}{} \DeclareFontShape{U}{wncy}{m}{n}{<->wncyr10}{} \DeclareSymbolFont{mcy}{U}{wncy}{m}{n} \DeclareMathSymbol{\Sh}{\mathord}{mcy}{"58}
The location of a cyrillic letter in the
wncyr
font can be found by looking at the chart in the AMSFonts User's Guide or at a font chart created by TeXing the filetestfont.tex
(included in every TeX system).
the user's guide can be accessed with texdoc amsfonts
or texdoc amsfndoc
.