# Mathsf Greek Symbols Lualatex

I am using Lualatex with Latin Modern as math font. I want to produce mathsf greek symbols. However, it seems that it doesn't work for greek symbols (Using \setmathfont[\range=mathsf]{Latin Modern Math}). In regular pdflatex \mathsf{\greekletter} produces an sans serif greek symbol. So I wonder, is this also possible in lualatex? Preferably the same font as regular pdflatex (I think it's CM).

Kind Regards

• Welcome to TeX.SX! As far as I can see, there is no sans serif mathematical Gamma in Unicode, just the bold version. :( – egreg Sep 10 '15 at 20:24

For reasons that I find very mysterious, Unicode has the full range of Greek in sans serif bold, upright and italic, but it doesn't cover sans serif Greek in medium weight; to wit, there are

MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD CAPITAL GAMMA (U+1D758)
MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL GAMMA (U+1D792)


and the other Greek letters (upper and lower case), but no medium weight ones.

So it's not surprising that \symsf{\Gamma} (or \mathsf{\Gamma} in an older version of unicode-math) gives no different symbol: there's none that satisfies the request.

You can get through with \textsf:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{unicode-math}

\begin{document}
$\Gamma\ne\textsf{\upshape Γ}\ne\symbfsf{\Gamma}$

$Γ\ne\textsf{\upshape Γ}\ne\symbfsf{Γ}$
\end{document}


A kludge, I know, but I can't offer any better. Of course the sans serif font defined in the document should support Greek.

• the unicode technical committee has a somewhat misguided fixation that symbols need to be assigned in nicely defined blocks, and they therefore assigned a single 2(hex)k block to the math alphanumerics. i'm not really sure how they managed to decide to omit the lightface sans greek (i'm pretty sure i was there when they did it!), but i'm doing the best i can to get the omission reversed. (i've provided documentation citing nist on the international system of units; if anyone has better documentation than that, please let me know.) – barbara beeton Sep 10 '15 at 20:52