[math-font-discuss] upright lowercase greek letters

[Ari Stern]

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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