[math-font-discuss] upright lowercase greek letters

[Jonathan Stickel]

Ari

That is a nice font set.  What I really want, though, is for \mathrm to 
select upright greek letters without having to use \other[greek].  Maybe 
I can get there eventually if I muck around with font declarations.  If 
anyone has some advice to get me started, I would be glad to hear it!

Jonathan


Ari Stern wrote:
> There may be better options out there, but I really like the
> Fourier-GUTenberg font package (fourier.sty).  This has both italic
> and upright greek, where the alternate version is accessed with
> \otheralpha, \otherbeta, etc.  The advantage is that the two styles
> match one another (as well as the surrounding text, which is Adobe
> Utopia).
> 
> The default is for \alpha to be italic, and \otheralpha to be upright.
>  Alternatively, if you use the "upright" option
> (\usepackage[upright]{fourier}), as in French mathematics style, then
> greeks and uppercase romans are upright by default; in this case,
> \alpha is upright, and \otheralpha is italic.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ari
> 
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel at vcn.com> wrote:
>> I am new to the list and apologize if this has been discussed before.  I
>> would like to have upright lowercase greek letters in math mode when I
>> use \mathrm{}.  I know that I can get them by using the Euler font by
>> following the suggestions here:
>>
>> http://www.superstrate.net/useful/useful.html
>>
>> However I would prefer that I would not have to declare each lowercase
>> greek letter as a new command.  It is also possible to redeclare the
>> "operators" math alphabet (what \mathrm uses) to be the Euler font, but
>> then this changes the font of roman letters as well.  I just want to
>> change the behavior of the lowercase greek letters.
>>
>> Uppercase greek letters will respect \mathnormal and \mathrm if the
>> package "fixmath" is used, but this is because most math fonts have both
>> upright and italic uppercase greek.  The problem seems to be that
>> lowercase greek only comes in italic for most fonts or only upright for
>> Euler.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jonathan
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