[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

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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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