{greek} is about the proper displaying of Greek letters and the Greek language in general using (La)TeX.
Questions tagged [greek]
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How to typeset greek letters
I want to write a sentence like "physics (from ancient greek φύσις)". But I don't know how to typeset the character "ύ" properly. Also I am not sure, if it is a good idea simply to use math-mode here to typeset the greek letters. So, what's the best…
student
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Upright Greek letters in text mode (not upgreek)
How do I type upright Greek letters? I have tried upgreek but it uses specific fonts (Euler or Adobe Symbol).
I want to use the upright Greek letters in the actual font being used. I'm thinking of the following solutions:
XeTeX
Direct ASCII code…
Kit
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What is the capital Greek letter for tau?
I would like to typeset the capital Greek letter for tau. I used \Tau, but I got error for that:
Undefined control sequence.
My preamble is…
Tim
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A Whole List of Math Fonts for Greek Letters in LaTeX?
Different people like different styles, and so it maybe useful to list all the math fonts for greek letters in latex. So far as I know, there are some math fonts for greek letters as follows for which the way to invoke see:…
M. Logic
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Uppercase greek letters in math in italic/slanted format
I read that in math, capital Greek letters should be italic, just like all the other (Latin alphabet) letters. How do I do this? I use \usepackage[charter]{mathdesign} as my font.
Martin Ueding
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Method of avoiding variant Greek letters
Using a virtual greek keyboard and the following packages it's possible to directly implement Greek unicode characters (e.g. θ)
\usepackage[mathletters]{ucs}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
However the displayed characters in the PDF are always the…
Reuben
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Theta hat dot: upright and bold
I've had endless problems trying to get bold, upright theta symbol, with a bold hat on top, and an ordinary dot on top of that.
I got most of the way, minus the dot, using the following code: (I got the unslanted theta code from…
J-J
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How do I write "amartia" in polytonic Greek
I want $\alpha\mu\alpha\rho\tau\iota\alpha$ with accent aigu ' above the $\iota$. How?
Frode Alfson Bjørdal
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Problem With Capital Greek Letters
I am writing an article in the Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA B) and I have used the journal's LaTeX template.
Unfortunately, I have a problem with the output PDF. Instead of capital Greek letters I get a black square and I cannot…
user3276054
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How to insert Greek letters (having trouble with \greekletter)
This is my code:
\begin{equations}
\begin{align}
\lamba = \frac{x}{2}
\end{align}
\end{equations}
But \lamba appears just as a blank space.
user263
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greek text in LaTeX (along with latin text)
I want to write greek and latin.
As a miniumum example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[greek]{babel}
\usepackage{fontenc}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\title{Το θεώρημα του…
Dimitris
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Greek small rho with dasia (and also psili): Problem with accent and LGR encoding
The following minimal example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[LGR,QX,T2A,T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
\fontencoding{LGR}\selectfont
ὉῥὙ ἠἈἐ Ὤἔ
\end{document}
sets all accents perfect.
However, if I use a different…
Linus Romer
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Missing package in OpenSuSE?
I installed texlive2013. Old functioning LaTeX files complain now for
missing files:
No file LGRcmr.fd.! LaTeX Error: This NFSS system isn't set up properly.
Asking pdflatex it answers:
For encoding scheme LGR the defaults cmr/m/n do not form a…
MNatiello
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Greek Letters in Text (not math mode)
I need to include a single Greek word in my document and the preferred font has, as they say, no Greek. Package {textgreek} to the rescue? Maybe not.
Here's a MWE:
%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8…
user26732
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Physics EMF symbol in LaTeX
How does one create the symbol for EMF (electromotive force) used in physics for a LaTeX document? It is like \varepsilon but uppercased.
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