# CTAN Update: mathastext

Date: March 12, 2011 4:08:04 PM CET
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 Jean-Francois Burnol submitted an update to the mathastext package. Summary description: Use the text font in simple mathematics License type: lppl Announcement text:
+ the new LGRgreek option is provided for text fonts also available in LGR-encoding, so that the Greek letters in math mode may originate from the same font as used in text (and math) for the Latin letters. + internal changes to the code for better readability (systematic use of \if... conditionals).
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/mathastext . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=mathastext (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

## mathastext – Use the text font in maths mode

The package uses a text font (usually the document’s text font) for the letters of the Latin alphabet needed when typesetting mathematics. (Optionally, other characters in the font may also be used). This facility makes possible (for a document with simple mathematics) a far wider choice of text font, with little worry that no specially designed accompanying maths fonts are available. The package also offers a simple mechanism for using many different choices of (text hence, now, maths) font in the same document. Of course, using one font for two purposes helps produce smaller PDF files.

The package, if running under Lua, requires the live 2013 distribution (or later).

 Package mathastext Version 1.3w 2019-11-16 Copyright 2011–2019 Jean-François Burnol Maintainer Jean-François Burnol

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