From s-canagaratna at onu.edu Thu Oct 13 02:43:27 2011 From: s-canagaratna at onu.edu (Sebastian Canagaratna) Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:43:27 -0400 Subject: [math-font-discuss] Achemso and math fonts Message-ID: Hi. I attach below two pdf version of almost the same file one using achemso the second not using it. You will see that with the achemso package the lower case v looks like the greek \nu whereas without the achemso package there is a clear distinction between lower case math v and \nu. How does one use the achemso package and still get distinguishable lower case v and gk \nu? Thanks. Sebastian Canagaratna -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vtest-1.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 72706 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vtest-2.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 56222 bytes Desc: not available URL: From axel.retif at mac.com Fri Oct 14 05:13:51 2011 From: axel.retif at mac.com (Axel E. Retif) Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:13:51 -0500 Subject: [math-font-discuss] Achemso and math fonts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4E97A8EF.1080300@mac.com> Sebastian, On 10/12/2011 07:43 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi. I attach below two pdf version of almost the same file one using > achemso the second not using it. You will see that with the achemso > package the lower case v looks like the greek \nu whereas without the > achemso package there is a clear distinction between lower case math > v and \nu. How does one use the achemso package and still get > distinguishable lower case v and gk \nu? When you say package (a sty file), I'm sure you rather mean class (see below). First, the document with clear distinction of v and \nu is in Computer Modern ---designing which Donald Knuth made sure italic v and \nu were not to be confused; the second document uses mathptmx for fonts (Times). If you only need the facilities of achemso, you can use the package like this: \documentclass{article}% <- or any other class: book, etc. \usepackage{achemso} and your document will use Computer Modern as default font. If you really need to use the achemso class, you can resort to the txfonts package with the varg option. Try typesetting this example: \documentclass[12pt]{achemso} \usepackage[varg]{txfonts} \begin{document} Some text and \( v \; \nu \) \end{document} the document still will use Times fonts but v and \nu will be different enough. See the txfonts documentation: http://ctan.tug.org/pkg/txfonts Best, Axel