[texhax] Searching for a calligrafic font

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm looking for a calligrafic font besides the one you get with the \cal
> command in plain TeX, another calligrafic font that be more `round' and soft.
> Can anybody provide any suggestion?


Michael Barr <barr at math.mcgill.ca> writes:

> I use Zapf chancery which is a very nice font with both capitals and lower 
> case.  However, I find the design size too small and I use what I call 
> pzcbig, with the following ot1pzcbig.fd file:
>
> [...]
>
> When the above fd file is available, the declaration
>
>   \fontfamily{pzcbig}\selectfont
>
> will select a font family "pzcbig", which is made up from the same
> fonts as the family pzc (Zapf Chancery), however, scaled to 120% of
> its "natural" size.


Thanks for your help, I tried pzc (with plain TeX I did: `\font\myfont=pzcmi'),
but it's quite similar to `\cal'.  I wish something much more `round'.

Thanks,
Rodolfo