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Overriding `\bfseries` and `\itshape` to do special things for certain families
My problem arises from trying to work around the issue described in question 26276: I want to use SizeFeatures to explicitly select another family for small sizes, but this causes bold / italic / etc. ...
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Is there a bold italic \sigma and a sans serif bold italic \sigma?
And they look differently?
I'm trying to typeset iso conform (vectors bold italic and tensors sans serif bold italic).
Mechanical stress $\sigma$ is a tensor, but I also want to typeset the normal ...
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2answers
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Italic small caps in urw-garamond?
I'm using the urw-garamond mathdesign package, which doesn't support italic small-caps. Is there a decent substitute I can use? I've tried the slantsc package with no luck.
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Bar-less “f” and finetuning existing characters
Specific question
I would like to produce an italic f without the crossbar. Can I do this relatively straightforwardly?
This letter, esh (ʃ), is Unicode U+01A9, U+0283. The esh of tipa.sty only ...
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How to get upright parentheses in the whole document?
My question is, basically, the same as the one in Upright parentheses in italic text: how do I force all parentheses in my document to be upright, without replacing them with some commands "by hand"?
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Unable to access “Helvetica Neue Ultralight Italic” font [closed]
I want to put some parts of my document in Helvetica Neue UltraLight italic.
I use :
\fontspec{Helvetica Neue Ultralight} \selectfont
\emph{...} ...
or :
\textit{...} ...
But none of 2 ...
2
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1answer
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cursive letters inside equation
I want to use cursive font inside an equation. I have defined a macro
\newenvironment{frcseries}{\fontfamily{frc}\selectfont}{}
\newcommand{\textfrc}[1]{{\frcseries#1}}
With this I get cursive ...
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0answers
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How to display italics with lmodern package [closed]
When I use the lmodern package, I cannot get italics to display. Here is an example:
\listfiles % added to get in the log the package versions
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
...
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0answers
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Bold, Italic doesn't work with trebuchet font [closed]
I need to use trebuchet font. But bold and italic don't work.
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{trebuchet}
What I need to work?
9
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1answer
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How to deal with it/sl/bold in lmtt?
I just stumbled upon the fact that the font lmtt (latin modern typewriter) seems to exist in
italic
slanted
bold
bold slanted
but not
bold italic
At least the file t1lmtt.fd contains the ...
4
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2answers
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Italic Greek characters in Times New Roman
I'm very new to LaTeX! I'm trying to create a template for creating scientific reports as PDFs. I'd like the whole of the document to be in Times New Roman. I've used the package pslatex, which ...
3
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1answer
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How to get this font in the picture (“MAX-MIN ant system” italic curved font) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are all the font styles I can use in math mode?
can you help me find the right command for this font in the picture, look at the "MAX-MIN" words. Thank you
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1answer
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What is the difference between italics and slanted text?
As I understand, LaTeX supports both via \textit and \textsl respectively, but what is the difference between the two?
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2answers
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Can I set it so that math mode has uppercase letters not italicized?
Is there a way to set it so that math mode automatically stops italicizing upper-case letters? That is, so that $U$ produces the effect of what is now $\mathrm{U}$? I am using computer modern. I am ...
4
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1answer
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If mathcode is used to typeset e and i upright, how to force it italics again?
I'm using \mathcode"69"69 in the preamble, as proposed in a comment in this question, to automatically typeset e and i upright in mathematical equations.
The question is, is there a way to get an ...
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1answer
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Italic/bold font in Lyx
I am using the latest version of lyx and I have selected a custom roman font in the settings menu in my document. I am using this font: http://www.fontspace.com/roger-white/oxford
The problem I am ...
3
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1answer
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Italic in some words of the title
I want to use a title with a foreign word, which should be in italic. I use KOMA-script.
I tried this:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
The text.
\section{Foo ...
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2answers
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How do I italicise individual words within \scshape
I am currently using mathpazo for the font for my thesis. I want to use smallcaps for my section headings (as you can see in the MWE I have set \allsectionsfont to \scshape. The problem is that I have ...
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0answers
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Itemize & italic with [utopia]{mathdesign} [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
TeX Gyre Pagella and itemize enviroment gives font warnings
I'm using \usepackage[utopia]{mathdesign}. When I include an itemize environment inside a {\itshape ...} ...
6
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1answer
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Is testing f@shape considered best practice method for reliably detecting italic and slant modes?
Subject says it all.
Is testing f@shape the cleanest, clearest, simplest, most reliable way to check for italic and slant modes? e.g.:
\ifthenelse{\equal{\f@shape}{sl}}{italic}{not italic}
...
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2answers
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Define particle names to use upright greek letters in math mode
Currently I have my electron neutrino & beta particle marco defined as
\newcommand{\eneutrino}{\ensuremath{\nu_e}}
\newcommand{\belectron}{\ensuremath{\beta^{-}}}
...
9
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3answers
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Is there a way to set math mode font non-italic?
I read many things about people wanting math mode in sans-serif font and doing crazy things with packages and options to get that, but I did not find anything that would simply make my math mode font ...
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vote
1answer
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How to temporarily remove the formatting in a definition environment?
I have a definition, written as follows:
\begin{definition}
This is a definition, in which I would like to have a few normal words.
\end{definition}
Ordinarily, the entire definition is rendered in ...
5
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1answer
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Italic shape needed in small caps fonts
I am using MiKTeX 2.5 version. Is there any possibility to change the small caps fonts in italic shape?
I had tried as like below
\textit{\textsf{Small Caps}}% This will gives the Regular Small ...
8
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2answers
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Specify different fonts for bold and italic with fontspec
The main font I use for my LuaLaTeX document lacks bold and italic variants. I'd like to specify a different font for those variants using the fontspec package.
Initially what I had in my preamble ...
6
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1answer
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using \textit in \section{} with beamer class
For a presentation using the beamer class (MiKTeX 2.8 with TeXnicCenter on Windows Vista) I need to have the italicized title of a book in a section heading. When I use \textit{...} or \emph{...} ...
5
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2answers
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Palatino italics relatively small in body text?
I'm using Palatino (\usepackage[sc]{mathpazo}) as the main font for my thesis, and it occurred to me that italic (and possibly also bold) body texts are somewhat smaller than the ...
3
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3answers
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Italic letters are too loose in math mode
I want to type something like this page http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/expr.html. So I need to use \begin{align*} and \end{align*} which displays its contents math mode. Therefore italic ...
4
votes
1answer
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blackboard italic font
I would like to make \mathbb{E} italic, i have tried \mathit{\mathbb{E}} and \mathbb{\mathit{E}}, both of them look like \mathbb{E}, I can not see the italic effect. Could anyone help?
By the way, I ...
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Overlaying caron and a vowel in boldface and italic styles
I found that a lovely typeface I wanted to use did not contain the graphs ǎ ě ǐ ǒ ǔ ǚ, which I need for Pinyin romanization in text mode. Discussion below takes ǎ as the example.
Using the graph ǎ ...
4
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Can XeLaTeX generate bold and italic font styles for typefaces that lack them?
I use XeLaTeX in order to have easy access to fonts installed on my operating system, and Chinese in particular. Some of the Latin typefaces most pleasing to my eye do not have bold or italic font ...
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Upright parentheses in italic text
This question led to a new package:
embrac
Bringhurst, in Elements of Typographic Style, recommends to use upright parentheses in italic text (i.e., write 'a (simple) example' as opposed to 'a ...
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2answers
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How do I change the math italic font in XeTeX/fontspec?
I have a document where the main font is Gotham Book. So in my preamble I have:
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Gotham Book}
As the fontspec manual describes, this sets the math roman font to ...
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3answers
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Can I get full justification for italic text?
In the TeXbook, Knuth notes that italics can lead to problems with justification:
EXERCISE 14.16
When an entire paragraph is typeset in italic or slanted type, it sometimes appears to be offset ...
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3answers
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Bold and italic in subsection
In the following documentclass
\documentclass[prb,twocolumn,showpacs]{revtex4}
how to have italic and bold in a subsection title?
The italic command removes the boldness when inside a subsection, ...
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Is there a difference between \textit and \itshape?
I have only ever used \textit (and \emph for emphasized text), but have noticed that in some TeX examples, \itshape is used instead of \textit. Is there a difference between \textit and \itshape? If ...
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1answer
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fontinst and italic small caps
I have a font that is distributed with italic small caps. I'd like to use these with fontinst. Does the current release of fontinst support italic small caps, and if so, what Karl Berry name should I ...
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3answers
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Bad spacing of math letters within italic text
I use the standard AMS theorem style, which means that my theorems are set in italic. In combination with math variables, this sometimes gives horrible spacing: The input If $U$ or $V$ \dots yields
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\emph or \textit
In the comments section of Does it matter if I use \textit or \it, I asked for a clarification of these points. The clarification has mostly been made, but it was requested that I turn this into a ...
