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Using Times Italic v for math mode v

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:26 pm
by Dennis Kletzing
The v that is used in math mode has slightly curved sides, different from the Times-Italic v, which looks very much like the Greek nu. I do math textbook production and sometimes have publishers or authors who prefer the Times-Italic v for the v in math mode. Is it possible to create an option that would allow for this. It could work like the zswash option, which changes the flat base z to a swash bottom z.

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:33 pm
by quadricode
As a temporary fix, you can do

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\newcommand{\varv}{\ensuremath{\textit{v}}}
which will give you "variant v" (hence \varv), so you can do

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\frac{d\varv{}}{dt}
for example.