General ⇒ italic roman inside an equation

[edallica]

hi eveyone!

im trying to put a nice looking lande g-factor into an equation. what i need is a roman g that is italicised when in the equation environment. i just can't figure out how to do this!

so far ive tried...

\rm{g}, this gives a roman g but it is not in italics
\emph{\rm{g}}, this gives a roman g but it is not in italics
\rm{\emph{g}}, this gives an italic g, but not the roman font!

any help would be very appreciated.
cheers.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi edallica,

welcome to the board!
Don't use the old macros like \rm, \it, \bf. Instead of \rm use \rmfamily or \textrm{text} or in math mode \mathrx{text}.
If there's no italic shape of the font typeface you like, you could try slanted: \textsl{text} or \slshape. Try this small example:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\[ \text{g} , \text{\textit{g}} , \textsl{\textrm{g}} \]
\end{document}

Stefan

[edallica]

Thanks Stefan,

\textsl{\textrm{g}} worked a treat.