Thank you for the information. I can still bear to use upright \Omega.

2009/1/7 Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>

> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
>>
>>>>  This method works well for most letters, both bold and italic, but for
>>> capital Greek \Omega \Gamma etc, bold but upright. Do you know how to
>>> make these letters in italic?
>>>
>>
>  That is how Euler capital letters are supposed to look. It imitates the
>> handwriting of mathematicians, which is upright and not italic. I do not
>> know if there is a font that contains italic capital greek letters to match
>> euler.
>>
>
> As you say, the hardwritten appearance is a feature of the euler fonts,
> and I don't think you can find a matching font elsewhere. Hermann Zapfs
> design is so distinctive that everything else will look out of place.
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
>
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