How to get "non-italic" Greek mu?

[Grant Edwards]

This is mostly out of curiosity rather than need, but I'm
trying to figure out how to get a lower-case Greek mu glyph
that's upright and has heavier strokes than the one used in math mode.
The math-mode mu glyph looks bad when used as part of a word in
normal text mode (FWIW, I'm using the "times" package).

For example, let's say I want to typeset "uClinux" using a mu
instead of a "u". It's normally typeset with a "u", so it
doesn't really matter, but what would one do if one wanted to
typeset it with a mu that looked better alongside normal text?

[Bob Tennent]

Post by Grant Edwards
This is mostly out of curiosity rather than need, but I'm
trying to figure out how to get a lower-case Greek mu glyph
that's upright and has heavier strokes than the one used in math mode.
The math-mode mu glyph looks bad when used as part of a word in
normal text mode (FWIW, I'm using the "times" package).

There are upright Greek letters in txfonts/pxfonts and also, using
the upgreek package, from Euler or the Postscript symbol font.

Bob T.

[Tariq]

Try with

\usepackage{upgreek}

and

\upmu

to get the non-slanting mu. I am not sure the shape of the glyph will
be to your liking (it comes from a different set of characters/symbols
and is the same no matter what the rest of the text font shapes are).
I personally do not like it as much but sometimes feel that I have no
choice when I need to typeset things like micro gram or other units.
Regards,

Tariq

[Bob Tennent]

Post by Tariq
\usepackage{upgreek}
and
\upmu
to get the non-slanting mu. I am not sure the shape of the glyph will
be to your liking (it comes from a different set of characters/symbols
and is the same no matter what the rest of the text font shapes are).
I personally do not like it as much but sometimes feel that I have no
choice when I need to typeset things like micro gram or other units.

Greek fonts with LaTeX support are available here:

http://myria.math.aegean.gr/labs/dt/fonts-en.html

There are also metafont-based fonts available:

http://stason.org/TULARC/travel/greece/42-How-do-I-write-greek-with-TeX-LaTeX.html

Bob T.

[Scott Pakin]

Post by Grant Edwards
This is mostly out of curiosity rather than need, but I'm
trying to figure out how to get a lower-case Greek mu glyph
that's upright and has heavier strokes than the one used in math mode.
The math-mode mu glyph looks bad when used as part of a word in
normal text mode (FWIW, I'm using the "times" package).
For example, let's say I want to typeset "uClinux" using a mu
instead of a "u". It's normally typeset with a "u", so it
doesn't really matter, but what would one do if one wanted to
typeset it with a mu that looked better alongside normal text?

\usepackage{textcomp}
...
\textmu{}Clinux

-- Scott