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In movies and on military issues one can see stencil letters. Although I don't want to write a whole text in this style I am asking myself if there is a LaTeX package for writing in military stencil letter style?

Lucas
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    If you have the font, you can compile using xelatex. – azetina Apr 30 '15 at 00:55
  • There are hundreds, if not thousands or even tens of thousands, of stencil-type fonts available for download from the Internet. Please narrow down the list of fonts you may be interested in. Separately, have you looked into using either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX instead of pdfLaTeX? The former two make it easy to use commercially available fonts (assuming, of course, that you've downloaded and activated the fonts in a way that's appropriate for your computer system). – Mico Apr 30 '15 at 00:57
  • I'm not aware of a package for doing that but for a different question, on outlined characters, I had an answer using the contour package that might create the effect you want. – DJP Apr 30 '15 at 01:01
  • Try http://www.1001freefonts.com/army-stencil-fonts.php. I heard US Army in WWII used Amarillo font: http://www.dafont.com/amarillo-usaf.font – Steven B. Segletes Apr 30 '15 at 01:04
  • Same source said US Navy used Long Beach Font: http://www.tlai.com/images/lbusmp1.gif – Steven B. Segletes Apr 30 '15 at 01:14

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As noted in the comments to the question, there are many, many military stencil fonts freely available online. Once you've downloaded one you like, you can load it using the fontspec package and compile the .tex file with xelatex or lualatex instead of pdflatex.

In the example below, I've used a freely available font and used fontspec's \newfontfamily command to load it so that anything in the scope of \stencil (you could use any name for it you like) will be in that font. Everything else will be in the font loaded with the \setmainfont command.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Georgia}
\newfontfamily\stencil{AmarilloUSAF}

\begin{document}
Normal text

{\stencil Stencil text}
\end{document}

enter image description here

Jason Zentz
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Here's a solution with Plain XeTeX needing no packages. Once you have a suitable font installed1, it can be used directly in the plain format:

\font\stencil="OctinStencilRg-Regular"
Some stencil text: {\stencil M*A*S*H}\bye

enter image description here

1 The font used here is freely available, but any OpenType stencil font will do.

Paul Gessler
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