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Upright greek math: `theta` with `textgreek` package too boldish

With the following MWE: \documentclass[british]{article} \usepackage[british]{babel} \usepackage{textgreek} \begin{document} \LARGE Normal text default font, italics and upright: ...
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Changing the Greek math font with mathspec

I've recently changed from pdftex to xetex to be able to write documents in Bembo Std but I'm not quite there yet. While trying to typeset some notes from one of my classes, I tried to typeset Greek ...
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How to switch to upright greek in math mode?

tI use libertine and newtxmath font packages, they provide upright greek letters. However, there is no way to automatically swith between italic and upright greek letters. I need a command, simillar ...
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Specifying a different font for polytonic Greek in pdfTeX with Babel

I am writing my master’s thesis with the ulthese class, which is now part of MiKTeX and TeX Live. This class is based on memoir and is fairly flexible, but assumes the use of pdfTeX and sets the font ...
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how can we write in Greek with computer modern font

How can we write Greek documents (i.e. in the Greek language) having the computer modern font? What code do we have to write? I'd like to note that I don't want to include some Greek letters, but I'd ...
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Bold Greek letters in achemso

I'm having trouble producing a bold capital "Pi" while using the achemso document class. The only success that I've had is by using \bm{\Pi} which produces an ugly result akin to "poor man's bold", ...
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Greek words with kpfonts

I want to typeset some sporadic Greek words in an otherwise Latin text. I can get it with something like: \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} ...
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‘β’ using Latin Modern fonts

I’m typesetting a text with some math and Greek letters. LaTeX handles Greek letters just fine in math mode but I can’t get it to display the character ‘β’ using either direct input or the \b macro ...
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Linux Libertine does not show Greek SmallCaps

According to the Linux Libertine font tester you can have Greek small caps. However the following example does not yield the desirable result: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} ...
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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 ...
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some greek letters disappear from PDFs included with includegraphics [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Ligatures in figures and pdftex I have created some graphs in PDF format with PyX that include some labels with greek letters. When these graphs are included with ...
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Why the greek text is not recompiling right? [closed]

I'm trying to recompile the document available here: https://github.com/rfitzp/elements but the page count is increasing a lot from the reference version here: ...
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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^{-}}} ...
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Greek characters with times font (utf8 input encoding)

I am despairing trying to solve the following problem. When compiling the following minimal example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{times} \usepackage[document]{ucs} ...
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Defining a command that distinguishes between greek and roman letters?

I'm using pdftex and I want to define a command for the typesetting of quantum mechanical operators that produces upright letters with a \hat accent. The problem is that the obvious solution ...
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polutonikogreek with lmodern 12pt

Within a document in ngerman or english, I'd like to have some Greek text using babel's polutonikogreek. It seems there are two options for including greek text: \textgreek{mikra'iti mouse~ion} ...
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Setting font size in Greek text with TexnicCenter and Miktex

How is it possible to define the fontsize in documents written in Greek? I am using TexnicCenter and Miktex and trying the following example \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} ...
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Blackboard bold variants for Greek letters

It is common (or it used to be) to use a blackboard-bold variant of \mu to denote roots of unity in some mathematical papers. However, despite searching (several times, periodically over several ...
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How do I get a proper mathematical \Lambda when using gfsneohellenic?

I am using the gfsneohellenic for my paper (which is in English). I load it using: \usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[default]{gfsneohellenic} Everything works fine except for capital greek ...