Scale lowercase symbol to uppercase height

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I would like to type a company name which contains a greek letter, e.g. Name\:$\alpha$, but I would like the lowercase greek symbol to be the size of a capital letter, which I have hacked using Name\:\scalebox{1.6}[1.6]{$ \alpha $}. Here are the two outputs:

What would be a best way to achieve the desired result so that when I 'capitalise' the lowercase greek letter it is scaled to the size of an uppercase letter (maintaining its aspect ratio).

Any help would be appreciated, as I have struggled to find anything similar online.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 14 '16 at 16:20

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You can use \resizebox with the height given as the same height as a capital letter, e.g. A:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newlength{\CapLen}
\AtBeginDocument{\settoheight{\CapLen}{A}} % after \normalsize
\begin{document}
N\resizebox{!}{\CapLen}{$\alpha$}ME
\end{document}

edited Jun 14 '16 at 16:20

egreg

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answered Jun 14 '16 at 14:49

StefanH

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This works perfectly, thanks. PS - Would I use a similar approach with \settowidth in the scenario I wanted to scale \alpha to the width of e.g. M? – oliversm Jun 14 '16 at 15:08
@oliversm Yes, and swap the arguments to \resizebox{\CapLen}{!}{$\alpha$}. – StefanH Jun 14 '16 at 15:51

Scale lowercase symbol to uppercase height

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