## LaTeX forum ⇒ Math & Science ⇒ A Times' clone that distinguishes between α and a

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user49915
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### A Times' clone that distinguishes between α and a

Sometimes we wish to typeset Reo timed data streams. Following §12 of Arbab's http://homepages.cwi.nl/~farhad/MSCS03Reo.pdf , we write ⟨α, a⟩:
\documentclass{standalone}\usepackage{unicode-math}\setmathfont[Ligatures=TeX]{TeX Gyre Termes Math}%%% Using Times (more realistically: a Times' clone) is a must.%\setmathfont[Ligatures=TeX]{CambriaMath.ttf}%%% Not Times, but is not better anyway\begin{document}$$\langle \alpha,a\rangle$$\end{document}

The result given by xelatex or lualatex, is, erm, no better than in Arbab's paper:
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Is there any Times' clone as TTF or OTF that provides a better distinction between the two symbols?

kaiserkarl13
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The glyph that comes with txfonts and newtxmath is slightly different than the one below (last stroke is a bit more curly, initial stroke thinner and at a different angle), but it depends on what you mean by "distinguish." I personally think the difference in the font you showed is similar to that in the lmodern fonts, but evidently that's me.