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[MiKTeX] upright greek letters
Игорь
2002-12-12 07:10:12 UTC
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Does anybody know how to type greek letters in upright (roman) shape?

I've tried to use pxfonts/txfonts packages. Greek letters become
upright, but latin letter in math mode become upright too...

Thanks in advance.
Proginoskes
2002-12-12 08:17:54 UTC
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Post by Игорь
Does anybody know how to type greek letters in upright (roman) shape?
What don't you like about $\Gamma$ (as opposed to $\gamma$)?
I'm not sure what you mean by "upright" (or "roman") otherwise.
-- Christopher Heckman
Dr Stefan Ploch
2002-12-12 14:07:00 UTC
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Neglecting that this is not a MiKTeX-specific question, have a look at
cbgreek.txt (in ...\doc\fonts\cbgreek); this file tells you what to do
(for both TeX and LaTeX users). If you use LaTeX, this document
recommends to use the babel package. The fonts I get are upright,
unlike the greek letters that you get within the math mode
evironments.

Re. Christopher Heckman's comment: I don't know whether the Greek
fonts referred to by me above are what the initiator of this thread is
looking for. But still: the (lowercase) Greek letters (Greek
minuscules) of the math mode environments are italics (cursive), but
are not, well, upright (= non-italics, 'regular'). $\Gamma$ gives you
a capital letter (majuscule) that is, in fact, upright, because in the
maths Greek font, minuscules, e.g., $\gamma$, are italics, while
majuscles are upright. In a proper ('normal' non-maths) Greek font,
both minuscules and majuscules are, in their regular usage, upright,
and \usepackage[greek]{babel} or \usepackage[english,greek]{babel},
etc., will do, I think, what was asked for (in LaTeX). (Cf. both
cbgreek.txt and user.dvi [in ...\doc\generic\Babel] for details; the
latter one is particularly useful if one wants to have both Greek
fonts and Roman fonts in one and the same document. As pointed out
above, there is some info on TeX users in cbgreek.txt.)
Post by Proginoskes
What don't you like about $\Gamma$ (as opposed to $\gamma$)?
I'm not sure what you mean by "upright" (or "roman") otherwise.
-- Christopher Heckman
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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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John Mullen
2002-12-13 16:33:42 UTC
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If you intend to write Greek text, you should probably try Babel. The
sample file below should give you an idea. For more information, see
texmf\doc\generic\Babel\user.dvi

John Mullen

sample file ----------------

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,twoside]{article}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage[greek,english]{babel}

\newcommand{\Greek}{\selectlanguage{greek}}
\newcommand{\English}{\selectlanguage{english}}

\begin{document}

\section{Test}
The document starts in the last language in the options list for
the call to Babel.

\Greek

Tee eepate?

\English

The commands above are my own concoction. See the definitions
above the start of the document. You could also use
selectlanguage, too. If you only do a little Greek, there is also
an environment option.

\begin{otherlanguage}{greek}
Katalaveno polee kala!
\end{otherlanguage}


\end{document}

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Subject: [MiKTeX] upright greek letters


Does anybody know how to type greek letters in upright (roman) shape?

I've tried to use pxfonts/txfonts packages. Greek letters become
upright, but latin letter in math mode become upright too...

Thanks in advance.



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