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/Lars Madsen<br>
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics<br>
Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University<br>
Mere info: <a href="http://au.dk/daleif@imf" tabindex="0">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><br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF508679"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> 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> texhax@tug.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [texhax] Greek letters relatively too large<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well it does seem to work in that in gains the reduction, but produces all sorts of errors.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">\newcommand{\minus}{\scalebox{0.75}[1.0]{$-$}} works OK</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">\newcommand{\myalpha}{\scalebox{0.94}[0.94]{$\alpha$}} does reduce, but causes errors.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any ideas, please?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Keith</p>
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