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I've searched these forums like crazy, and I can't find an answer.

I'm trying to create a beamer presentation, and I simply can't set the math fonts to be the regular latex math fonts. I used 

\usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif}

or 

\usefonttheme{serif}

or 

\documentclass[mathserif]{beamer}

and all these do the same - almost perfect job, except for the character $v$ which is always rendered very similar to $\nu$, and it's crucial in my presentation that they'll be distinguishable.

Any suggestions?

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    – adn
    Commented Dec 13, 2011 at 12:56
  • create a complete minimal example because there is a big difference in those two characters when using the default fonts.
    – user2478
    Commented Dec 13, 2011 at 13:33
  • That was a good suggestion. It turns out that the problem was that I used \usepackage{times}. When I remove this package everything is great. Now I only need to figure out how to keep the nice fonts for the text mode...
    – yohbs
    Commented Dec 13, 2011 at 14:12
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    @yohbs Instead of \usepackage{times} use something like \usepackage{mathptmx} \usepackage[scaled=0.9]{helvet} \usepackage{courier}. You can turn your previous comment to an answer (since it describes the solution to your problem), and then you can accept it.
    – Gonzalo Medina
    Commented Dec 13, 2011 at 14:36

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It turns out that the problem was that I used

\usepackage{times}.

When I remove this package everything is great. In order to keep the nice fonts in the text mode I use

\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[scaled=0.9]{helvet}
\usepackage{courier}
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i get the following msg when i use \documentclass[mathserif]{beamer} and latex file in cmd

Class beamer Warning: ``mathserif'' is obsolete. Use font theme ``serif'' with
option ``onlymath'' on input line 345.

then i used instead usefonttheme[onlymath]{mathserif} in the preamble and everything works fine.

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    This gave me an error saying "File 'beamerfontthememathserif.sty; not found". I used \usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif} from here, which worked fine for me.
    – Gautam Sreekumar
    Commented Jun 10, 2022 at 18:32

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