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I'm a programmer but new to (La)TeX. As far as I can tell, neither the Computer Modern nor Latin Modern fonts have glyphs for the full greek alphabet.

I installed (OS X) a Latin Modern font that came with TeX Live (lmroman10-regular.otf). As you can see in the attached image, the lowercase greek letters (and nabla) are displayed (TextEdit) using some default font.

Also shown in the image is LaTeXiT displaying pretty lowercase greek letters that seem to be Latin-Modern-Italic-ish.

So what font(s) are used by LaTeX for greek (and math symbols)? Where would I find them in the TeX fonts directory?

Image: http://imgur.com/dvyyB.png

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My TeX distro came with the following Computer Modern font collections (Adobe Type 1): cm, cm-extra, cm-lgc, cm-super, and cmcyr.

I was only able to install (Windows 7) and inspect (charmap) the files in the first two collections. I didn't find the greek lowercase alphabet anywhere, although it's probably there somewhere.

After some Googling, I found cm-unicode which is exactly what I needed.

Marco
The default font in any decent distribution of TeX/LaTeX does include all the characters of the Greek alphabet. It's when you start changing fonts that things get a bit tricky. I think that one of the reasons that you see so many papers, and books, which at first glance were obviously prepared with TeX and Computer Modern, is that many of us find wrestling with fonts very tricky.
High Performance Mark