How to make an epsilon with ebgaramond-maths

Question

I am using ebgaramond font and trying to make an epsilon:

\documentclass[10pt,article]{memoir}

\usepackage[lining]{ebgaramond}
\usepackage{ebgaramond-maths}

\begin{document}
Epilon: $\epsilon$

\end{document}

But it won't show up: (never mind the spelling the command is right:)

Does the font lack it and there is no automatic fall-back or what is going on here? What can I do to get around it?

I just found \varepsilon as a quick and hacky fix but it can't be the right way now can it.... — jonalv, Jun 01 '18 at 08:10
@moewe hm I really thought it would fall back to some other version of the symbol then... I guess I am just plain wrong on that? — jonalv, Jun 01 '18 at 08:12

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '18 at 08:40

10

You may want to contact the package's author (email is available on the front page of the package's user guide) and ask if the missing \epsilon glyph is a bug. While you're at it, you may also wanto to ask about \theta (which looks a lot like \vartheta), \xi (its scaling may be off), \varpi (too much whitespace to the right of the glyph?), and \rho (which looks rather like \varrho).

Just for comparison, here are the same glyphs from Computer Modern.

\documentclass[10pt,article]{memoir}
\usepackage{ebgaramond-maths} % comment out to get Computer Modern
\begin{document}

$\alpha\beta\gamma\delta[\epsilon]\varepsilon\zeta
\eta\theta\vartheta\iota\kappa\lambda\mu\nu
\xi\pi\varpi\rho\varrho\sigma\varsigma\tau
\upsilon\phi\varphi\chi\psi\omega$ % \omicron not defined

\end{document}

answered Jun 01 '18 at 08:40

Mico

506,678

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I didn't post a listing of uppercase Greek characters since they look just fine. – Mico Jun 01 '18 at 08:45
3

The documentation of the package says that characters are missing (it doesn't say which one, but it is not only epsilon as one can check with a fonttable. ). – Ulrike Fischer Jun 01 '18 at 08:46
3

@UlrikeFischer referring to package documentation: a low blow! – David Carlisle Jun 01 '18 at 10:58

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '18 at 08:12

6

The log reports

Missing character: There is no ^^O in font EBGaramond12-Italic--oml-ebgaramond!

which seems like an error in the font setup.

\varepsilon works though

\documentclass[10pt,article]{memoir}

\usepackage[lining]{ebgaramond}
\usepackage{ebgaramond-maths}

\begin{document}
Epsilon: $[\epsilon][\varepsilon]$

\end{document}

answered Jun 01 '18 at 08:12

David Carlisle

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If no suitable Greek is freely available the package probably ought to make the commands give an error rather than just access missing glyphs – David Carlisle Jun 01 '18 at 08:13

Davislor · Answer 3 · 2018-06-01T16:29:44.503

There is now a Garamond Math OpenType font matching EB Garamond, usable with unicode-math. I also added it to the OpenType Math Fonts community answer.

\documentclass[varwidth, preview]{standalone}

\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{unicode-math}

\setmainfont{EB Garamond}
\setmathfont{Garamond Math}[Scale=MatchUppercase]

\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
   &\lim_{x \to c} f(x) = L \iff \\
   &\quad \forall \epsilon > 0. \exists \delta > 0. \forall x \in D. \\
   &\quad\left\lvert x-c \right\rvert < \delta \implies
         \left\lvert f(x) - L \right\rvert < \epsilon
\end{align*}
\end{document}

Note that, as of June 2018, the full EB Garamond 12 font family is not yet in TeX Live, only the Regular and Italic faces.

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 01 '18 at 10:31

If you want to get a fallback while experimenting with different fonts, you can substitute \epsilon with \varepsilon when the former is not available:

\documentclass[10pt,article]{memoir}

\usepackage[lining]{ebgaramond}
\usepackage{ebgaramond-maths}

\begingroup
\def\extract#1"#2#3#4\extract{
  \gdef\epsilon{%
    \iffontchar\textfont "#2 "#3#4
      \mathchar"#2#3#4
    \else
      \varepsilon
    \fi
  }%
}
\expandafter\extract\meaning\epsilon\extract
\endgroup

\begin{document}

epsilon: $\epsilon$

varepsilon: $\varepsilon$

\end{document}

If I comment out the two \usepackage lines, I get

If you finally decide for ebgaramond-maths, then just add

\renewcommand{\epsilon}{\varepsilon}

instead of the code between \begingroup and \endgroup (inclusive).

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 05 '19 at 19:13

0

You can also load the newtxmath package and use \epsilonup as replacement for \epsilon. \epsilonup looks more similar to the \epsilon used by the most other math fonts.

\documentclass[10pt,article]{memoir}

\usepackage[lining]{ebgaramond}
\usepackage[]{newtxmath}
\usepackage{ebgaramond-maths}

\begin{document}
Epsilon: $\varepsilon$ \\
Epsilon: $\epsilonup$

\end{document}

answered Jan 05 '19 at 19:13

rqwa

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I'm not sure this is a viable solution, because newtxmath does several redeclarations of symbols, whereas ebgaramond-maths relies on standard math codes. For instance, uppercase Greek letters will be from newtxmath rather than ebgaramond-maths. – egreg Jan 05 '19 at 20:51
I wasn't aware of these drawbacks, so the solution has to be taken with care. I did some testing with newtxmath and this raised a few additional questions to me. I run the above example with and w/o newtxmath for uppercase Greek letters and the result differs for pdflatex, xelatex, and lualatex. But I think this shouldn't be discussed in this thread. – rqwa Jan 07 '19 at 15:09

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 26 '24 at 02:19

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\documentclass[10pt,article]{memoir}

\usepackage[lf,ebgaramond]{newtx}


\begin{document}
Epsilon: $\epsilon$

\end{document}

answered Feb 26 '24 at 02:19

Máté Wierdl

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How to make an epsilon with ebgaramond-maths

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