Herbert Voß

The default font is Latin Modern and your math Pagella, which makes no real sense! ``` \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \RequirePackage{pagella-otf} \begin{document} a\textit{a}$a$$\mathit{a}$ \end{document} ```

it depends on what you define! ``` \textit{} --> always textfont \mathit{} --> character from the TEXTfont!! \symit{} --> character from the MATHfont ``` Only for fonts which have text...

I cannot see it with up-to-date TeXLive

my fault. My `xelatex` was a link to `lualatex`, which works well. With `xelatex` I can confirm it ...

XeTeX finds fonts by symbolic name only for system fonts and not the one from the TeX distribution. You can set a link from the system fonts to the TeX...

``` \documentclass{article} \usepackage{unicode-math} \setmathfont{XITSMath-Regular.otf} \setmathfont{XITSMath-Bold.otf}[version=bold] \begin{document} \[ a = b \] \[ \symbf{a = b} \] \[ \symbfit{a = b} \] \mathversion{bold} \[ a = b \] \end{document} ```

You can use FiraSans: ``` \documentclass{article} \usepackage{firamath-otf} \newcommand{\mitsanseta}{% \textit{% \fontspec{FiraMath-Regular.otf}[ StylisticSet = 2, Color = red ]% \miteta% }% } \newcommand{\msanseta}{% \textit{% \fontspec{FiraMath-Regular.otf}[ StylisticSet = 2, Color = blue ]%...