Questions tagged [greek]
greek is about the proper displaying of greek letters and the greek language in general using (La)TeX
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How to print non-italic and bold Greek letters
How to write in math mode \upsilon and \omega same as on attached images?
What font/package I need to include?
Thank you!
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How can I use multiple math fonts?
I'm using mathdesign package.
Most features including greek fonts are satisfactory, however its alphabet math fonts look ugly.
amsfonts package has standard good-looking fonts but its greek fonts are ...
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Polytonic Greek in LaTeX with Arno: multiple diacritics on one letter
I am trying to paste in a text in Unicode polytonic Greek where there are multiple accents on a single character. As discussed in Multiple diacritics on one character, it is totally feasible to ...
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Every time I used {\textomega_0} the text after loses all the spaces after
I'm trying to add an omega with a sub scrip (omega null) and I used {\textomega_0}
but it keeps giving me a result that looks like this
Whereω0isthenaturalfrequency
any ideas?
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Switching fonts automatically based on script, not just mixing alphabets in the same font
The following works with xelatex and produces the expected output:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{DejaVu Serif}
%\setmainfont{GFS Porson}
\begin{document}
one two three
ἑν ...
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Switching fonts automatically based on script [duplicate]
The following works with xelatex and produces the expected output:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{DejaVu Serif}
%\setmainfont{GFS Porson}
\begin{document}
one two three
ἑν ...
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How to write capital beta in Latex like in the beta distribution
What is the code for the capital beta sign in picture below?
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How to produce this Greek word with \textgreek
Here is a word I am trying to produce with textgreek:
So far, I have
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc}
\newcommand{\textgreek}[1]{\begingroup\fontencoding{LGR}\selectfont#1\endgroup}
\...
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How to get different mathematical Greek symbols psi and varphi? [duplicate]
How do I change from the first psi and varphi symbols to the second symbols on Overleaf ? Please see the picture. Which package or font will get me the second symbols ?
Edit: on using \usepackage{...
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Problem with typesetting Persian, Greek, Hebrew
So, I am trying to write the following sample text, and when I type \begin{hebrew} נְשִימָה \end{hebrew}, all the rest of text goes all wrong. The same issue arises with Greek word.
"لفظ (anima ...
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Is there a package that allows me to write Greek letters without anything else?
Just a package that allows me to write something like προσθαφαίρεσις without needing to do the annoying \pi \rho ...etc. Surely it should be supported - I imagine there are Greek and Russian (Cyrillic)...
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Greek letter in the notation for martingale problem
This is nothing but just a question about greek letters in the notation of III.1.9 in Jacod and Shirayeav (2003):
In here, what is the letter ? and how can I write in LaTeX?
It would be very ...
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Greek letter with two dots over in text mode
I want to write the Greek letter theta with two dots over it in text mode, but I haven't gotten it to work yet.
I have both these packages:
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{textgreek}
and I have ...
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1answer
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Remove apostrophe from greek subfloat numbering
I run this:
\documentclass{article}
\RequirePackage[LGR,T1]{fontenc}
\RequirePackage[english,greek]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\RequirePackage{alphabeta,csquotes}
\usepackage{mwe}
\usepackage{...
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What Font is This? Is It Possible to Replicate Using \textgreek and PDFlatex?
In my various projects, I occasionally encounter some Greek that I would like to typeset as close to the original as possible.
For example,
I have tried to mimic this using \textgreek. Consider the ...
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I can finally get non-bold sans serif Greek, but is there a better way?
I am trying to make a package that fully implements ISO 80000-2 notation recommendations for use in a physics book I am planning to write. These recommendations call for sans serif letters to ...
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Enter some greek words in latin text with latin keyboard
I need to enter a few greek words (i.e., with greek letters) in a text set in latin letters, using a latin keyboard. I wonder whether my choice of the bgreek package is the recommended way nowadays, ...
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Formulas, Latin with Umlauts, Ancient Greek - Font Recommendations
I am currently trying to standerdize all my assignments. So I am looking for a font that is suitable for math formulas and the latin alphabet with diacritics, but also ancient greek (so the polytonic ...
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Problem with csquotes, greek and bibliography
I cannot seem to be able to use quotation marks correctly. I have loaded csquotes package, and I am also using ucharclasses to automatically change hyphenation rules in my text. Below you can see the ...
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Problem with TableOfContents whith XeLaTex+ucharclasses+Babel
I want to write a greek-english text. I am using babel+XeLaTex. I have a problem with the table of contents: When these lines are included in my code
\setDefaultTransitions{\selectlanguage{english}}{\...
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Ancient greek characters do not appear with Times New Roman
I'm using XeLaTeX and the polyglossia package to write text in italian and ancient greek.
My problem is that ,when I use e.g. the **CMU Serif** font, the greek text appears correctly, but ,when I ...
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Redefine command chain
I've recently switched to To Times New Roman into my Latex report and I've noticed that bold greek letters are printed awfully when using commands like \bm{} or \boldsymbol{}. I've turned around the ...
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Define different fonts for different scripts
I'm trying to define different fonts for different scripts, Latin and Greek. I'm currently using Linux Libertine O as my main font, which includes support for Greek, but I would like to try using a ...
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Numbering with greek numeral of exercises with xsim package
I would like make xsim numbering my exercises with greek numerals.
For example instead of
Θέμα 1
Θέμα 2 ...
i would like
Θέμα Α
Θέμα Β ... etc
How can i modify or set the counter?
I have tried \...
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Polyglossia changes the bold letters from algorithms
I compile the tex document with XeLaTeX. When I put on my premable this \setdefaultlanguage{greek}, table of content and algorithms special words loses their bold letters and I got an output like that....
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Tilde over greek letter in text
how can I get a tilde over the greek letter nu in text. I am using:
\usepackage{textgreek}
I tried
\~\textnu
but that gives the tilde in front of the letter and not above it.
Thanks!
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2answers
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Greek letter case matching in memoir class
I've written some documents using a macro file to make writing math easier. In some of these macros, I use the answer from Applying MakeUppercase to non-English characters in math mode to use \...
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How to embed greek text in the pdf using Textstudio
I have generated a pdf that includes some greek text.
When I open the compiled pdf and I copy the greek sentence and then past it somewhere e.g. in a txt file, I get weird results.
Example:
I get: H ...
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Why are my upper-case Greek letters italic by default?
While reading my document I have noticed that the upper-case Greek letters that appear on it are written in italic. However, I don't know why this is happening, and I would like to revert this ...
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Make up Greek font italic
I am using the command \upvarphi in the package TXfonts, which provides a rather old fashioned variant of Greek letter phi. I uploaded the picture here. The result is nice, but it seems that it is not ...
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Problem adding package mbtimes
This a question of a beginner. I would like to have old-fashioned Greek letter $ \varphi $. For instance, as the number 12 in the list in the question A whole list of math fonts for greek letters in ...
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Typesetting an Archaic Form of Greek
I am doing some typesetting which requires the imitation of an archaic form of Greek; some words of which include (with my imitation of them lisited directly underneath):
The Latex code I used to ...
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Using ucharclasses and XeLaTeX for ancient Greek
When I use ucharclasses with XeLaTeX to automatically change the font for Greek text, I find that it sometimes inserts transitions at the wrong point, within the Greek text. (Note: I am using the ...
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Simplest way to write Greek and English text in the long-term and for all OS
I have written LaTeX documents with lots of greek text and also interspersed with English sentences some time ago. Including bibliography. I used babel and pdflatex for this.
Now I am trying to show ...
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Use of Greek language without \textlatin{} \textgreek{} each word [duplicate]
I am writing a thesis in Latex,using the babel library \usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
But using \textlatin and \textgreek in every word is very frustrating.
I tried using polyglosia library \...
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How do I get chemgreek to use κ instead of ϰ with fontspec and newcomputermodern?
Yesterday I appeared to find the perfect bit of magic code for my thesis, however, I noticed LaTeX is using the cursive version of kappa (ϰ) instead of the symbol chemistry uses for denticity (κ).
ϰ ...
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Using CMU Serif Upright Italic instead of chemgreek?
I recently moved over to luaLaTeX from pdfLaTeX which means I am no longer quite so font-constrained. I found this answer which shows how to load this alphabet of upright Greek letters instead of the ...
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Typesetting Greek letters in text mode: differences between alphabeta and textalpha
This is a two-part question. First part is about the differences between alphabeta, and textalpha. Each package documentation says it typesets Greek letters in text mode.
So, are there any actual ...
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LyX can't display some Math symbols like Greek in window 10
Problem
All the Greek/Latin symbols in LyX displayed incorrectly since yesterday, As shown here:
My OS is windows 10. Some patches like KB4592438, KB4580419, kB4580325, KB4592438, and KB4586873 have ...
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Writing Greek in XeLaTeX with only latin characters
In LaTeX, it is possible to produce the greek expression Ἑλληνικὴ γλώσσα with command
\textgreek{<Ellhnik`h gl'wssa}
i.e., using only latin characters and without having to use any greek letters ...
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Bold greek letters using alphabeta and cfr-lm
I am using the alphabeta package in order to get upright greek letters in text mode.
I also want to use bold and sans serif upright greek letters in text mode.
This works well with computer modern and ...
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Select Theta shape in Greek with Libertine and pdflatex
Good evening!
Very very simple question I fear. I am using pdflatex to compose a file and I must use the font libertine. Since I have to write a lot in Greek, I would like to get this theta θ in the ...
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How to substitute a glyph for a single Greek character?
I am using Minion Pro (with fontspec under LuaLaTeX), and the character ϱ(= \varrho, but in text mode) doesn't show.
input: ϱυϑμὸν
output: �υϑμὸν
Is there a way to globally remap only this character ...
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Helvetica for Latin letters and a sans-serif font for Greek letters
I'm trying to be a perfectionist and desperately trying to make things right:
All Latin symbols should use Helvetica
Greek letters should be at least sans-serif (Helvetica in an ideal world)
Here is ...
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Quotes appearing as “?” in bibliography
I'm using Overleaf's XeLaTeX compiler, along with \usepackage{polyglossia} to write greek and latin text. There seems to be some conflict between polyglossia and my bibliography:
I've tried different ...
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Greek letters don't appear in overleaf document even though greek babel package is inserted
I am trying to modify the following overleaf latex document:
1.5-column-cv
I want to write everything in greek so after doins some search I inserted at the preamble the below packages:
\usepackage[LGR,...
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Why does hyphenation orphan combining accents?
While testing a package I was writing to map Greek beta code to Unicode, I discovered a bug in both Babel and Polyglossia, running under either XeTeX or LuaTeX. The packages will happily insert a ...
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How to disable italics for \textgreek in .bib output
I would like to disable the italics for the titles in Greek from my .bib file, but not for the entire document. How should I do?
I believe that the best way is to use \emph{} with Greek characters ...
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\textgreek command unknown with LuaLaTeX since last babel-greek update
Since the last babel-greek package update (around 2020-11-10), the \textgreek command is no longer defined while compiling with LuaLaTeX. The following MWE:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage[greek....
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Latex glossaries greek symbols: not in alphabetical order [duplicate]
I am writing a thesis, I have a List of Greek Symbols chapter. The list can be successfully generated, but I found the sequence of greek symbols were not correct. Here is my code:
\documentclass{...
