Re: \ell in postscript enhanced

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>Having said all that, I have to point out that so far as I know \ell is not
>defined here; it must be a special from one of the add-on LaTeX packages.
>

Looking in the LaTeX companion, I don't see any special symbol next to 
the \ell.  But this is a math font only character.  So to access it you 
must have some trick to get into the math environment.  I'm not sure how 
you are using this, but if it using the font directly, not via TeX or 
LaTeX, then you should use the symbol's definition, which can be found 
in fontmath.ltx as:

\DeclareSymbolFont{letters}     {OML}{cmm} {m}{it}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\ell}{\mathord}{letters}{"60}

(Note that LaTeX math fonts are not as flexible as the normal text font.)

Dan