# How do I get the “normal” theta with ebgaramond-maths in pdfLaTeX?

With ebgaramond-maths in pdfLaTeX, I'm getting a theta (with $\theta$) that's sort of a sparse, cursive, loopy thing. I want the normal theta. Looking at texlive/2015/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/ebgaramond/Specimen.pdf, it appears that the theta I want is available, I'm just not getting it. I tried \vartheta with no luck.

I'm getting this: ϑ; I want this: θ.

Example code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ebgaramond-maths}
\begin{document}
$\sin^2\theta + \cos^2\theta = 1$
\end{document}

• Have you tried with other fonts ? – Jérôme Dequeker Jan 18 '16 at 14:32
• I have not had this problem with any other fonts. Just tried libertine, CM, Baskervaldx, and XCharter without the issue. – dedded Jan 18 '16 at 14:36
• I have pinged the maintainer of ebgaramond-maths to your question. You could as well write a mail to ReesC21 <at> cardiff <dot> ac <dot> uk as this is a bug in my honest opinion. You can find details on the font-mapping here ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ebgaramond-maths but I am no expert on fonts so let's see what @cfr writes here. – LaRiFaRi Jan 18 '16 at 14:39
• This is somewhere in between a bug and a feature request. It's not entirely clear that a font shall support two variants of the same letter. It can, but it need not to. – yo' Jan 18 '16 at 14:50
• @LaRiFaRi It is not a bug. The mathematics support is based on the italic, as the documentation explains. I can't find any evidence that the regular theta glyph is provided by the italic. The specimen linked in the question does not appear to include it. The package never claims to support upright Greek and doing so would require a significant amount of work, which I am not convinced is worth it for a package which inevitably provides at most partial support for mathematics. – cfr Jan 18 '16 at 21:36