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I know this question is very similar, but most everything there is centered on MnSymbol, but I am trying to use or "obtain" three symbols using the arevmath package (I am using pdfLaTeX and MiKTeX):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{arevmath}
\begin{document}
The important symbols: $\Sampi, \Qoppa$ and $\stigma$. The problem: $30+40+\phi=0$.
\end{document}

produces: enter image description here

On the other hand,

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Needed symbols: \texttt{\textbackslash Sampi,\textbackslash Qoppa}, and \texttt{\textbackslash stigma}. No problem: $30+40+\phi=0$.
\end{document}

produces: enter image description here

Is there a way to get or use these symbols without completely ruining the look of the other mathematical formulas I am trying to use? I tried using wrisym as well, but it did not compile. I have looked at a number of other fairly similar questions, but I could not find anything that I could apply directly to the problem I'm currently facing.

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Daniel W. Farlow
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Something like this? This takes a maths alphabet. You can avoid this if necessary but if you want several symbols from the font, it is more straightforward this way.

\documentclass{article}
\DeclareSymbolFont{extraitalic}      {U}{zavm}{m}{it}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\Qoppa}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{161}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\qoppa}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{162}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\Stigma}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{167}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\Sampi}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{165}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sampi}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{166}
\DeclareMathSymbol{\stigma}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{168}

\begin{document}
The important symbols: $\Sampi, \Qoppa$ and $\stigma$. No problem: $30+40+\phi=0$.
\end{document}

mix

Not necessarily typographically ideal, perhaps, but it does get you those symbols without changing the rest.

Explanation

I started by just seeing what the package arev provided. arevsymbols.tex sounded likely so I started there. (Otherwise, I'd have used grep to search for one of the commands you mentioned.) I got the definitions of the commands from that file:

\DeclareMathSymbol{\Qoppa}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{161} % uni03D8
\DeclareMathSymbol{\qoppa}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{162} % uni03D9
\DeclareMathSymbol{\Sampi}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{165} % uni03E0
\DeclareMathSymbol{\sampi}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{166} % uni03E1
\DeclareMathSymbol{\Stigma}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{167} % uni03DA
\DeclareMathSymbol{\stigma}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{168} % uni03DB

So now I just needed to know what extraitalic was. I used grep for this on just the .sty files:

grep extraitalic tex/latex/arev/*.sty

This gave me this:

tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:\DeclareSymbolFont{extraitalic}      {U}{zavm}{m}{it}
tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:\ifthenelse{\equal{\var@a}  {true}}{}{\DeclareMathSymbol{a}{\mathalpha}{extraitalic}{139}}
tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:\ifthenelse{\equal{\var@i}  {true}}{}{\DeclareMathSymbol{i}{\mathalpha}{extraitalic}{140}
tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:                                      \DeclareMathSymbol{\imath}{\mathalpha}{extraitalic}{111}}
tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:\ifthenelse{\equal{\var@I}  {true}}{}{\DeclareMathSymbol{I}{\mathalpha}{extraitalic}{138}}
tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:\ifthenelse{\equal{\var@f}  {true}}{}{\DeclareMathSymbol{f}{\mathalpha}{extraitalic}{154}}
tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:\ifthenelse{\equal{\var@l}  {true}}{}{\DeclareMathSymbol{l}{\mathalpha}{extraitalic}{141}}
tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:\ifthenelse{\equal{\var@u}  {true}}{}{\DeclareMathSymbol{u}{\mathalpha}{extraitalic}{142}}
tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:\ifthenelse{\equal{\var@v}  {true}}{}{\DeclareMathSymbol{v}{\mathalpha}{extraitalic}{143}}
tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:\ifthenelse{\equal{\var@w}  {true}}{}{\DeclareMathSymbol{w}{\mathalpha}{extraitalic}{144}}
tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:\ifthenelse{\equal{\var@x}  {true}}{}{\DeclareMathSymbol{x}{\mathalpha}{extraitalic}{145}}
tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:\DeclareMathSymbol{\origIota}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{30} % same as \origI
tex/latex/arev/arevmath.sty:\DeclareMathSymbol{\varIota}{\mathord}{extraitalic}{138} % same as \varI

and the first line,

\DeclareSymbolFont{extraitalic}      {U}{zavm}{m}{it}

was the one I was looking for.

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  • That's awesome and exactly what I wanted--I am wondering, though, how you knew to use extraitalic and the other options? Were those specified in the arevmath style file and that was the key to what you did above (because I actually did look at the style file, but I was unsure of how to use the information there). – Daniel W. Farlow Jun 28 '15 at 03:06
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    @FlintLockwood suing \xfonttable from the fonttable package you can get the information you required: `\documentclass{article} \usepackage{fonttable} \usepackage{arevmath} \begin{document} \xfonttable{U}{zavm}{m}{it}

    \xfonttable{U}{matha}{m}{n}

    \end{document}`.

     – Gonzalo Medina Jun 28 '15 at 03:13
  • @FlintLockwood See edit for my approach which doesn't require me to know that the font family is zavm! – cfr Jun 28 '15 at 03:17
  • @GonzaloMedina But you have to know the name of the font family first in that case.... – cfr Jun 28 '15 at 03:18
  • @cfr True. But I first looked into arevmath.sty, so the name popped out immediately. – Gonzalo Medina Jun 28 '15 at 04:02
  • @FlintLockwood you can read arevmath.sty and recognize the symbol what you want (searching the command for the symbol is .sty file), then add the definition to your tex file. Run your code and this show an error: The font is not loaded. Then, you can recognize the font extraitalic to load. Write in console grep extraitalic tex/latex/arev/*.sty. The same process is for another symbol and another package, just make the appropiate changes. – juanuni Jun 28 '15 at 05:17
  • Thank you for expanding your answer! The explanation makes a lot more sense in light of the other links I read before asking this question. – Daniel W. Farlow Jun 28 '15 at 05:29
  • @FlintLockwood You're welcome. (And you're right: it isn't a complete standalone explanation. But I'm not sure that's doable in a single answer!) – cfr Jun 28 '15 at 13:08