Straight letters in TeX?

Question

How do I get straight letters while assigning variables? For a variable P, I currently use \text{P} to straighten it but syntactically speaking, it doesn't seem like the right way to do this.

Welcome to TeX.SE! Do you mean this: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3415/what-is-the-correct-way-of-embedding-text-into-math-mode? — CarLaTeX, Apr 02 '21 at 08:58
If you're not stuck to Computer (or Latin) Modern, the fourier package, based on Adobe Utopia, has an upright option which uses the French style: uppercase letters are upright, as well as lowercase and uppercase greek letters. — Bernard, Apr 02 '21 at 15:28

score 12 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 02 '21 at 09:11

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I believe \mathrm may be what you're looking for:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\[ \mathrm{ ABC} \]
\end{document}

edited Apr 02 '21 at 09:11

egreg

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answered Apr 02 '21 at 09:04

chsk

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Please, don't use minimal for examples: it's not meant for that. – egreg Apr 02 '21 at 09:11
Thanks for the tip. Why isn't it? – chsk Apr 02 '21 at 09:12
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See Why should the minimal class be avoided? – egreg Apr 02 '21 at 09:27
@egreg why hasn't that class never been renamed? If it is only for testing, how many people in the wild rely on it? – daleif Apr 02 '21 at 09:36
@daleif Who knows? It has never been advertised as a class for minimal typesetting examples, though. – egreg Apr 02 '21 at 09:37
@egreg thanks. Amusingly enough, it was only through examples here on TeX.SE that I learned that minimal existed at all! – chsk Apr 02 '21 at 12:28
@chsk That's why there's an entry in the “often referenced questions” about it. – egreg Apr 02 '21 at 12:32
@egreg Where are those found? – chsk Apr 02 '21 at 12:35
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@chsk https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2419/often-referenced-questions – Phelype Oleinik Apr 02 '21 at 13:10
Excellent. Thanks, @Phelype! – chsk Apr 02 '21 at 14:04

Straight letters in TeX?

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