[texhax] Greek letters relatively too large
Dr A K Hannaby
keith_hannaby at mathshelp.com
Thu Mar 13 12:58:41 CET 2014
Lars and Susan
Minimal code attached (.tex and a simple .eps graphic).
I have since discovered that the "scalebox" package only fails when \myalpha
is called within the caption of a figure where the effect of size is less
prominent.
(so I could live with the odd \alpha being larger in captions)
However, I hope you can throw some light on the matter.
Regards
Keith
From: Lars Madsen [mailto:daleif at imf.au.dk]
Sent: 13 March 2014 08:34
To: Dr A K Hannaby; texhax at tug.org
Subject: RE: [texhax] Greek letters relatively too large
do you mind sharing some code so we can try that for ourself?
/Lars Madsen
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information:
http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
_____
From: texhax [texhax-bounces at tug.org] on behalf of Dr A K Hannaby
[keith_hannaby at mathshelp.com]
Sent: 12 March 2014 19:07
To: texhax at tug.org
Subject: [texhax] Greek letters relatively too large
Tug
Using amsbook and packages: txfonts, times and mathptmx, when I call for a
Greek letter like \alpha in mathmode, I get a character which is
considerably larger (about 107%) than the companion Arabic characters.
I only need four of five characters: alpha, beta, theta, phi, lambda, so I
tried the trick below which works for reducing the minus sign - but it fails
for the letters.
Well it does seem to work in that in gains the reduction, but produces all
sorts of errors.
\newcommand{\minus}{\scalebox{0.75}[1.0]{$-$}} works OK
\newcommand{\myalpha}{\scalebox{0.94}[0.94]{$\alpha$}} does reduce, but
causes errors.
Any ideas, please?
Keith
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