greek is about the proper displaying of greek letters and the greek language in general using (La)TeX
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Upright Greek letters in text mode (not upgreek)
How do I type upright Greek letters? I have tried upgreek but it uses specific fonts (Euler or Adobe Symbol).
I want to use the upright Greek letters in the actual font being used. I'm thinking of ...
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How to typeset greek letters
I want to write a sentence like "physics (from ancient greek φύσις)". But I don't know how to typeset the character "ύ" properly. Also I am not sure, if it is a good idea simply to use math-mode here ...
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Why can I only use some capital greek letters inside my equations?
For example:
\begin{equation}
\delta % ok
\Delta % ok
\epsilon % ok
\Epsilon % error
\end{equation}
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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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Getting started with Greek and Hebrew in LuaLaTeX
I am typesetting a 17th century English theological document that uses a smattering of Greek and Hebrew. I am using LuaLaTeX with TeXShop on the Mac.
Is LuaLaTeX up to the task? If so what are the ...
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Greek pdf bookmarks
I am puzzled with sections titled with Greek characters. They do appear in the pdf's Content list, though not correctly.
For example, in my thesis--written in English with LyX, based on the ...
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Force upright Greek letters with isomath
The isomath package makes it possible to typeset upright Greek letters via \mathrm and \mathbf. Is it it possible to force all Greek letters to be typeset upright unless specified otherwise, e.g. to ...
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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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Greek numbering
I wish to use numbering like 1\alpha, 1\beta,... in some subequations.
I know that this is obtainable by redefining the \theequation like the following
(which gives lower-case Roman numerals, 1.i, ...
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horizontal alignment of dot over hat over bold greek letter!
For some strange reason, this:
\hat{\dot{\bm{\phi}}}
prints the dot and the hat slightly off the left of the phi letter. Any ideas if this can be fixed? thanks.
Using bm package for bold symbols.
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Which package includes \Rho? (Big rho) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
Why can I only use some capital greek letters inside my equations?
I want to use the big rho (\Rho) in my document but can not find a package ...
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XeLaTeX with polyglossia and Greek
I'm struggling a lot with XeLaTeX and polyglossia. Somehow the font selection doesn't seem to work as I would expect it (and as the error messages suggest).
Please consider the following example:
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Proper way to use greek letters in an English document
I typically use LaTeX to write chemistry & physics documents with a lot of equations. I often will reference terms and variables and such in the text of my document. Typically I just do this by ...
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Greek pdf-bookmarks with greektex package; is it possible?
I am using TeX Live and also, package greektex. In order for greektex to work I must use iso-8859-7 encoding. I was wondering if with these settings there is a way to produce pdf bookmarks in Greek ...
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Greek character in Beamer document title
I need to include the Greek letter sigma in the title of my Beamer presentation. When I use $\sigma$ to obtain the symbol (which works fine in other LaTeX document titles), I receive the warning ...
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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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xelatex and apa
I am using biblatex to format my references.
Document is book and is written in greek.
References are mainly english but I have some in greek as well.
While the authoryear style works very well, the ...
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Change BibTeX's language
I am writing a document in Greek.
My bibliography, however consists mainly of English entries (along with a few Greek, French and German ones).
If I just add the .bib file all entries are in Greek. ...
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How can I write greek in TexnicCenter with Miktex
Using the standard babel package is compeltely counter-intuitive as the letters in the keyboard do not match the babel package and also the accent is in a different key which makes it impossible to ...
