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I'm preparing my paper for submission to an IEEE conference. The style guide is here (zip file). Under equations, the conference style guide says: "you may use the solidus (/), the exp function, or appropriate exponents. Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and variables, but not Greek symbols." Then proceeds to give an example with \gamma which is a Greek letter. Does anyone know if Greek letters are allowed or not?

IEEE conference guide on equations

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    That only says not to italicize greek letters. – Maeher Mar 28 '21 at 11:52
  • Related if not duplicate: https://academia.stackexchange.com/q/159594/20058, see my answer: https://academia.stackexchange.com/a/159596/20058 – Massimo Ortolano Mar 28 '21 at 14:11
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    If you use LaTeX this is easy. See the second answer here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/219975/how-to-get-non-italic-greek-symbols-with-ams-packages – Ethan Bolker Mar 28 '21 at 14:20
  • Thanks, looks like I've mis-interpreted. I'm using overleaf and there's no unicode-math, so I've gone with upgreek even though I don't really like prefixing everything with up... – stevew Mar 29 '21 at 10:24

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Of course you can use Greek letters.

But do not italicize them.

Here is an example of a random IEEE Conference paper that displays a formula in which Greek letters are not italicized, while other letters are:

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Note that the psi (ψ) and pi (π) are not italicized, but t and e are.

anpami
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