New answers tagged greek
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Computer Modern's greek (bottom) font is (loosely) based on Monotype's 155M Greek font (top):
The Monotype 155M font itself is related to the Porson greek font, which was one of the most used typeface for greek in english speaking countries. One of the characteristic of this font is that it has upright capitals but slanted lowercase. This might seem ...
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The situation with uppercase Greek letters is in fact better than for lowercase Greek letters: the latter are provided only in the slanted shape. Upright uppercase Greek letters which look like their Latin counterpart can be typeset in Plain with {\rm A}, etc... and the other uppercase Greek letters are by default upright but can easily be typeset in slanted ...
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With the new greek-fontenc and updated greek-inputenc packages,
you are now able to use Greek Unicode characters in the LaTeX source
(and the utf8 "LaTeX encoding" option in LyX).
Together with \usepackage[pdfencoding=auto]{hyperref} his solves
the problem with PDF-strings.
Alternatively, Greek LICR macros (like \textalpha ... \textomega) can be used.
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Just try to replace
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
with
\usepackage[greek,english]{babel}
But perhaps, if you just need to type some greek letters, why don't you type directly α, β, γ, &c. and compile with LuaLaTex ? You'll only have to use an opentype font that has greek letters — Latin Modern has.
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You can use \reflectbox from graphicx and also \text from amsmath to get the symbol to scale in sub/superscripts
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,graphicx}
\usepackage{unicode-math}
\setmathfont{Lucida Bright Math OT}
\DeclareRobustCommand{\ammaG}{\text{\reflectbox{$\Gamma$}}}
\begin{document}
$\Gamma\ne\ammaG$
$\Gamma=\Gamma$
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I also spent a lot of time on the issue and found nothing satisfactory. So I made up my own blackboard bold mu and alpha:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\newcommand{\Balpha}{\mbox{$\hspace{0.12em}\shortmid\hspace{-0.62em}\alpha$}}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
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A sans serif font supporting Greek is OpenSans:
\documentclass[paper=a4,fontsize=11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}
\usepackage{kerkis}
\usepackage{opensans}
\newcommand{\MyName}[1]{{\Huge\sffamily#1\par}}
\newcommand{\MySlogan}[1]{{\large\sffamily\textit{#1}\par}}
\frenchspacing
\begin{document}
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Removing the irrelevant packages, here's a working solution:
\documentclass[paper=a4,fontsize=11pt]{scrartcl} % KOMA-article class
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[iso-8859-7]{inputenc}
\usepackage{kerkis}
\frenchspacing
\newcommand{\NewPart}[1]{\section*{\MakeUppercase{#1}}}
\begin{document}
\NewPart{Personal details}
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