I want to produce a few upright Greek letters in the latex default font. I would use math mode for this purpose, however, it only displays Greek letters in italics. Since I am already using xelatex, I thought it would be easy to produce a few Greek symbols using the polyglossia package. Unfortunately, polyglossia reports this:
! Package polyglossia Error: The current latin font does not contain the "Greek" script!
Solution form the docs: specify a font for Greek. OK. That worked. But I want to use the default font. Since it is possible to output Greek letters with the default font in math mode, it should somehow be possible to get Greek letters in text mode with polyglossia.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{greek}
\title{}\date{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
This is math mode with default font $\tau\acute{\epsilon}\mu\nu\omega$.
The Greek should, however, be set in regular font.
% This is polyglossia \textlang{greek}{τέμνω}, reporting an error.
\end{document}
BabelPad
is handy: underTools
,Font Analysis
, it has aList all fonts that cover this Unicode block...
. and shows each font and how many characters it covers. For example,Noto Serif
font covers 121 characters of the 135-characterGreek and Coptic
Unicode block.Aegean
font covers all 135.