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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tilde over a symbol Phi
Please suggest me a way to put tilde over a symbol phi.
I can easily put it over a letter but coming to the case of symbols, it is giving problems.
Thanks in advance.
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How to typeset greek letters
I want to write a sentence like "physics (from ancient greek φύσις)". But I don't know how to typeset the character "ύ" properly. Also I am not sure, if it is a good idea simply to use math-mode here ...
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siunitx: µ doesn't work
I'm using TeXnicCenter for Windows (7) and I'm a bloody beginner in everything that concerns LaTeX. I'm using the siunitx package for mathematical formulas and it works just fine... with one exception....
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Why can I only use some capital greek letters inside my equations?
For example:
\begin{equation}
\delta % ok
\Delta % ok
\epsilon % ok
\Epsilon % error
\end{equation}
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Upright Greek letters in text mode (not upgreek)
How do I type upright Greek letters? I have tried upgreek but it uses specific fonts (Euler or Adobe Symbol).
I want to use the upright Greek letters in the actual font being used. I'm thinking of ...
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How to write upper case \varepsilon in LaTeX math environment?
I need the uppercase of this sign $\varepsilon$ how to I get that?
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Blackboard bold variants for Greek letters
It is common (or it used to be) to use a blackboard-bold variant of \mu to denote roots of unity in some mathematical papers. However, despite searching (several times, periodically over several ...
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Force upright Greek letters with isomath
The isomath package makes it possible to typeset upright Greek letters via \mathrm and \mathbf. Is it it possible to force all Greek letters to be typeset upright unless specified otherwise, e.g. to ...
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Why LaTeX uses upright uppercase Greek letters by default in math mode?
Why upper-case Greek letters are typeset in upright font, i.e., \mathrm? While at the same time, some upper-case Greek letters those are also Latin Letters ,e.g., A for $\Alpha$, B for $\Beta$, are ...
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What is the capital Greek letter for tau? [duplicate]
I would like to typeset the capital Greek letter for tau. I used \Tau, but I got error for that:
Undefined control sequence.
My preamble is
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[...
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Greek numbering
I wish to use numbering like 1\alpha, 1\beta,... in some subequations.
I know that this is obtainable by redefining the \theequation like the following
(which gives lower-case Roman numerals, 1.i, 1....
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Upright Greek font fitting to Computer Modern
I'm looking for an upright Greek font for single Greek characters (like "β-decay" or "µ-metal") which fits to the default CM/latin style, i.e. the upright version of the default italic math mode Greek ...
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Should Greek letters inserted in text (using math mode, mostly) always be italic?
The least painful way I know of inserting a Greek letter in a text is to use the math mode and the corresponding command. This will produce an alpha letter :
$\alpha$
But this always produces an ...
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Laplace's Equation Symbol [closed]
I used \nabla to present the laplace equation but it doesn't work, is there any method to write the del operator (Gradient) symbol?
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Why can't I get a bold Greek letter? [duplicate]
My MWE is as follows:
\documentclass[paper=a4, fontsize=12pt]{article} % A4 paper and 11pt
% font size
\usepackage[english]{babel} % English language/hyphenation
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amsthm} ...
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Consistent macro for bold upright vectors in both latin and greek
I’m using pdfLaTeX, and I want all vectors I typeset to be in bold, upright font. Unfortunately, based on whether the symbol is latin, lowercase greek, or uppercase greek, there are different commands ...
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Non-ASCII characters in Biblatex
I am using biblatex with backend=biber and the following .bib file:
@article{concellon_synthesis_2006,
title = {Synthesis of Enantiopure ({αS,βS)-} or ({αR,βS)-β-Amino} Alcohols by Complete ...
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Getting started with Greek and Hebrew in LuaLaTeX
I am typesetting a 17th century English theological document that uses a smattering of Greek and Hebrew. I am using LuaLaTeX with TeXShop on the Mac.
Is LuaLaTeX up to the task? If so what are the ...
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How to write capital alpha?
Unfortunately, the command \Alpha does not produce capital version of \alpha (as one might expect in analogy with how, say, \Pi produces capital \pi). It so happens that the capital alpha looks rather ...
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Which package includes \Rho? (Big rho) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
Why can I only use some capital greek letters inside my equations?
I want to use the big rho (\Rho) in my document but can not find a package which ...
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XeLaTeX with polyglossia and Greek
I'm struggling a lot with XeLaTeX and polyglossia. Somehow the font selection doesn't seem to work as I would expect it (and as the error messages suggest).
Please consider the following example:
\...
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How to temporarily replace Latin characters with Greek
Often I am typing equations with many Greek characters in them, and it becomes cumbersome to type out the commands for them all. I would like to make a command or environment that replaces Latin ...
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Alternate Greek symbols
I remember there being a way to display some Greek letters in a slightly different style (like how people often write Greek letters a bit differently than they're printed). Can anybody remind me of ...
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how can we write in Greek with computer modern font
How can we write Greek documents (i.e. in the Greek language) having the computer modern font? What code do we have to write? I'd like to note that I don't want to include some Greek letters, but I'd ...
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How to switch to upright greek in math mode?
I use libertine and newtxmath font packages, they provide upright greek letters. However, there is no way to conveniently swith between italic and upright greek letters. I need a command, simillar to ...
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How to write greek letters in BibTeX entry?
I'm a LyX user.
I have an article title with the following text:
β-glucosidase
I have this entry in BibTeX so I tried to type \beta-glucosidase or {\beta}-glucosidase but they don't work. I tried ...
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Ancient Greek hyphenation in LuaLaTeX
Can anybody tell me the current state of hyphenation patterns in LuaLaTeX, especially with regard to Ancient Greek?
I searched here on tex.sx and on the web. There are many mailing lists discussing ...
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A Whole List of Math Fonts for Greek Letters in LaTeX?
Different people like different styles, and so it maybe useful to list all the math fonts for greek letters in latex. So far as I know, there are some math fonts for greek letters as follows for which ...
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Define particle names to use upright greek letters in math mode
Currently I have my electron neutrino & beta particle marco defined as
\newcommand{\eneutrino}{\ensuremath{\nu_e}}
\newcommand{\belectron}{\ensuremath{\beta^{-}}}
\newcommand{\bpositron}{\...
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Mirror greek symbol in math environment
I need a mirrored symbol \Gamma. Is it posible? I can't find this symbol and I do not know a way to mirror the symbol. I use unicode math.
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‘β’ using Latin Modern fonts
I’m typesetting a text with some math and Greek letters. LaTeX handles Greek letters just fine in math mode but I can’t get it to display the character ‘β’ using either direct input or the \b macro ...
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How to specify variant tau? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to look up a symbol?
How can I get the "hooked" form of lowercase tau (see below) to show in posts in SE (Math, Theoretical CS, etc.)?
P.S. I tried the "obvious" \vartau, ...
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Fonts for PolyTonic Greek
I am using XeLaTeX with the fontspec package for Polytonic Greek character support (Unicode solutions only, no hacks). The default font doesn't display most of the desired characters, but I like the ...
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Upright bold greek with condition in math mode
Good day!
I googled the whole stackechange, but was not able to find the answer. I'm quite new to Latex, so my approach is not proper. I try to define a macro, that should format greek letter as ...
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Problem with inserting the symbols \times and \omega when using arabi package
Is it impossible to insert the mathematical symbol \times when using the arabi package?
After compiling
A\times B
it becomes AB and the sign \times disappears
See the example below.
\...
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Command /k unavailable in encoding OT1. - possibly using too many languages in one document?
I'm a LaTeX newbie, so please, bear with me (also, I'm not an English native speaker, so I apologise in advance for all my grammar/spelling mistakes).
I'm using LaTeX to format my translation of one ...
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Uppercase greek letters in math in italic/slanted format
I read that in math, capital Greek letters should be italic, just like all the other (Latin alphabet) letters. How do I do this? I use \usepackage[charter]{mathdesign} as my font.
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How to set up TeX software to begin making existing Greek and Hebrew texts into custom interlinear pdfs?
Starting Point
I have a W32TeX package with latex, pdftex, xetex installed on a win7 box and am interested in getting started creating interlinear Greek-Hebrew (2 line, no English) texts of Biblical ...
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Greek pdf bookmarks
I am puzzled with sections titled with Greek characters. They do appear in the pdf's Content list, though not correctly.
For example, in my thesis--written in English with LyX, based on the KOMA-...
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horizontal alignment of dot over hat over bold greek letter!
For some strange reason, this:
\hat{\dot{\bm{\phi}}}
prints the dot and the hat slightly off the left of the phi letter. Any ideas if this can be fixed? thanks.
Using bm package for bold symbols.
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How can I get three diacritics on the same Greek letter?
I'm working on a document where I need to (or at least would like to) write Ancient Greek text that has long alphas (indicated with a macron above) that also have breathing marks and accent marks. I ...
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Problem with enumeration using greek letters
So this is my code:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,greek]{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[...
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How to use lipsum with greek as main language
I'm trying to create a random text using lipsum having greek as the main language.
The problem is that when I try to compile my file, an error keeps occuring about endcsname.
My code is
\...
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Two letter variables with upright Delta
I'm using newtxmath with the slanted and libertine option in order to get standard slanted greek letters in mathmode as well as the option for upright greek letters.
My question concerns a common two ...
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How to make a new greek font to work with babel
I have an OpenType font (.otf) and I need to use it from pdftex. I use an 8 bit input encoding. I am stuck on the greek part with babel. The input I use is the following:
\selectlanguage{...
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How do I produce this Greek letter koppa: Ϟ in pdfLaTeX?
I have been trying to typeset the character GREEK LETTER KOPPA. It has not been working. I know the Unicode number (U+03DE), and tried the command ^^3de and ^^3DE. Neither worked. I also tried \char ...
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Writing Greek text [duplicate]
I am trying to compile some Greek text in PDF. I get it compiled using babel package, but text in Greek renders as complete gibberish. Only if I write Latin text does it convert it into Greek letters, ...
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lgrxenc.def not nound
Yesterday I've finally reinstalled my TeXLive to the version of 2014. While compiling, I have the following error:
fontec.sty Package fontenc Error: Encoding file `lgrxenc.def' not
found \...
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Method of avoiding variant Greek letters
Using a virtual greek keyboard and the following packages it's possible to directly implement Greek unicode characters (e.g. θ)
\usepackage[mathletters]{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
However the ...
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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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