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In Bringhurst it is suggested to use upright parentheses and punctuation in italic text.

The newtxtext packages allows for the option theoremfont which replaces figures, punctuation and parentheses in amsthm environments (which are my main source of italic text) by upright versions.

I would like to make use of this functionality, but I don't want to use newtx fonts. I tried looking into the package's source code and found the line \DeclareOption{theoremfont}{\ntx@thrmtrue}, but I can't seem to find where and how this boolean is used.

I was asked to include a MWE, however I don't have much to include. Here is an example of a theorem which should be changed quite drastically:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsthm}

\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}

\begin{document}
    \begin{theorem}
        At theorem with [brackets], \{braces\}, (parentheses), 1 or 2 numbers, and some punctuation\ldots!
    \end{theorem}
\end{document}
  • can you make a MWE to give us something to start with? – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Mar 27 '18 at 12:01
  • The trick from newtxtext might not help you. It just uses relies on the fact that [ are upright in \slshape of this font `\documentclass{article} \usepackage{newtxtext}

    \begin{document} \slshape [ \itshape [ \end{document}`

     – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Mar 27 '18 at 12:31
  • related questions: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/374064/upright-punctuation-independent-from-font-style https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/86112/how-to-get-upright-parentheses-in-the-whole-document https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/13048/upright-parentheses-in-italic-text – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Mar 27 '18 at 12:33

1 Answers1

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Workaround:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{embrac}


\usepackage{amsthm}
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}

\usepackage{embrac}

\newtheoremstyle{plain}
  {\topsep}   % ABOVESPACE
  {\topsep}   % BELOWSPACE
  {}       % BODYFONT
  {0pt}       % INDENT (empty value is the same as 0pt)
  {\bfseries} % HEADFONT
  {.}         % HEADPUNCT
  {5pt plus 1pt minus 1pt} % HEADSPACE
  {}          % CUSTOM-HEAD-SPEC

\begin{document}
    \begin{theorem}
        \emph{At theorem with [brackets], \{braces\}, (parentheses), 1 or 2 numbers, and some punctuation\ldots!}
    \end{theorem}

\end{document}

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  • This workaround, with embrac does not work if one uses thmtools to define a theorem style and, in the latter, uses bodyfont=\mdseries\itshape. – murray Dec 02 '19 at 22:14