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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Lars and Susan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Minimal code attached (.tex and a simple .eps graphic).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have since discovered that the “scalebox” package only fails when \myalpha is called within the caption of a figure where the effect of size is less prominent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>(so I could live with the odd \alpha being larger in captions)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>However, I hope you can throw some light on the matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Keith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Lars Madsen [mailto:daleif@imf.au.dk] <br><b>Sent:</b> 13 March 2014 08:34<br><b>To:</b> Dr A K Hannaby; texhax@tug.org<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [texhax] Greek letters relatively too large<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>do you mind sharing some code so we can try that for ourself?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'><br>/Lars Madsen<br>Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics<br>Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University<br>Mere info: <a href="http://au.dk/daleif@imf">http://au.dk/daleif@imf</a> / More information: <a href="http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf" target="_blank">http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><div id=divRpF508679><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'> texhax [texhax-bounces@tug.org] on behalf of Dr A K Hannaby [keith_hannaby@mathshelp.com]<br><b>Sent:</b> 12 March 2014 19:07<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:texhax@tug.org">texhax@tug.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [texhax] Greek letters relatively too large</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Tug<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Using amsbook and packages: txfonts, times and mathptmx, when I call for a Greek letter like \alpha in mathmode, I get a character which is considerably larger (about 107%) than the companion Arabic characters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>I only need four of five characters: alpha, beta, theta, phi, lambda, so I tried the trick below which works for reducing the minus sign - but it fails for the letters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Well it does seem to work in that in gains the reduction, but produces all sorts of errors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>\newcommand{\minus}{\scalebox{0.75}[1.0]{$-$}} works OK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>\newcommand{\myalpha}{\scalebox{0.94}[0.94]{$\alpha$}} does reduce, but causes errors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Any ideas, please?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Keith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>