greek is about the proper displaying of greek letters and the greek language in general using (La)TeX
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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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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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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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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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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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Non-ASCII characters in Biblatex
I am using biblatex with backend=biber and the following .bib file:
@article{concellon_synthesis_2006,
title = {Synthesis of Enantiopure ({αS,βS)-} or ({αR,βS)-β-Amino} Alcohols by Complete ...
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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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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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How to make a new greek font to work with babel
I have an OpenType font (.otf) and I need to use it from pdftex. I use an 8 bit input encoding. I am stuck on the greek part with babel. The input I use is the following:
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Ancient Greek hyphenation in LuaLaTeX
Can anybody tell me the current state of hyphenation patterns in LuaLaTeX, especially with regard to Ancient Greek?
I searched here on tex.sx and on the web. There are many mailing lists discussing ...
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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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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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Method of avoiding variant Greek letters
Using a virtual greek keyboard and the following packages it's possible to directly implement Greek unicode characters (e.g. θ)
\usepackage[mathletters]{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
However the ...
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How to set up TeX software to begin making existing Greek and Hebrew texts into custom interlinear pdfs?
Starting Point
I have a W32TeX package with latex, pdftex, xetex installed on a win7 box and am interested in getting started creating interlinear Greek-Hebrew (2 line, no English) texts of Biblical ...
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siunitx: µ doesn't work
I'm using TeXnicCenter for Windows (7) and I'm a bloody beginner in everything that concerns LaTeX. I'm using the siunitx package for mathematical formulas and it works just fine... with one ...
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Should Greek letters inserted in text (using math mode, mostly) always be italic?
The least painful way I know of inserting a Greek letter in a text is to use the math mode and the corresponding command. This will produce an alpha letter :
$\alpha$
But this always produces an ...
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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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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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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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Uppercase greek letters in math in italic/slanted format
I read that in math, capital Greek letters should be italic, just like all the other (Latin alphabet) letters. How do I do this? I use \usepackage[charter]{mathdesign} as my font.
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What is the capital Greek letter for tau? [duplicate]
I would like to typeset the capital Greek letter for tau. I used \Tau, but I got error for that:
Undefined control sequence.
My preamble is
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
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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 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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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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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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How can the \textmu symbol be used in math mode and resize correctly?
I wish to use an upright mu character in various places in my document, and so I've put the following in my preamble:
% textcomp, for its upright mu
\usepackage{textcomp}
% some user macros
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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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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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Can I typeset greek letters in text mode using Latin Modern Fonts?
I use lualatex and utf8 source. I want to use the Latin Modern fonts (including math). If I include e.g. the character ε in my source file; it does not appear in the output. I've tried changing the ...
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\polyset and greek letters
The polynom style (version “2006/04/20 0.17 (CH,HA)” from texlive 2012) has to be told about which tokens represent variables. The manual has an example like this:
\polyset{vars=XYZ\xi, % make X, Y, ...
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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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English minitoc entry within a Greek utf8 document
In a document set up as shown in the question Greek pdf bookmarks, the interesting bits are:
\documentclass[greek,english]{scrbook}
\usepackage[LGRx,T1]{fontenc} % define LGR and T1 encodings
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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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Upright bold greek with condition in math mode
Good day!
I googled the whole stackechange, but was not able to find the answer. I'm quite new to Latex, so my approach is not proper. I try to define a macro, that should format greek letter as ...
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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 ...
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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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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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OpenType Latex font for usage in text editor
I like to use the LaTeX fonts as well in text editors. Concerning this, some questions came into my mind:
Is it true that I need so called OpenType fonts for that, which I could use like Times or ...
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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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Command /k unavailable in encoding OT1. - possibly using too many languages in one document?
I'm a LaTeX newbie, so please, bear with me (also, I'm not an English native speaker, so I apologise in advance for all my grammar/spelling mistakes).
I'm using LaTeX to format my translation of one ...
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How to use Greek letters (in a presentation)
I would like to include the following line from Wikipedia in a presentation:
στεγανός steganós ‚bedeckt‘ und γράφειν gráphein ‚schreiben‘
But I am unable to convince pdflatex to include the ...
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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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Why does using Greek break em-dashes?
I know the conversion of --- to an em-dash is an on-going problem with lualatex. But I don't understand why using Greek in one font should (afterwards) break conversion of 3 hyphens to an em-dash in ...
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Why does \mathrm{\varphi} work, but \text{\varphi} does not?
This:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
$\mathrm{\varphi}$
\end{document}
Versus:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
$\text{\varphi}$
...
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Problem with Greek language
I am trying to write an essay in Greek and I type Greek characters but it doesn't compile. I have downloaded both greektex and program Babylon but it seems that I can't make them work.
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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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Converting greek utf letters to latex symbols
I have a collection of notes on my iPad, written using a markdown editor/viewer (trunk notes) that does not understand latex, but does display greek. Is there a simple way to convert the greek letters ...
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Alternate Greek symbols
I remember there being a way to display some Greek letters in a slightly different style (like how people often write Greek letters a bit differently than they're printed). Can anybody remind me of ...
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Normal Greek sigma (and not varsigma) before apostrophe
Strangely enough, LaTeX automatically changes a normal sigma (σ) into a "varsigma" (ς) if no proper letter follows. Of course, in most cases that's perfectly fine. It's a bit annoying, though, when ...
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bookmark language isn't Greek {LyX}
I am using LyX in order to write my thesis in Greek Language.
When I press the preview button on LyX, everything is ok with the greek language on my thesis except the bookmarks on the side of pdf. ...
