Q on Italics-Bold type in Latex

[Srilata]

I am looking for suggestions to accomplish the following
in Latex.
How can I print a word in *both* Italics and Bold type ?
A combination of \bf and \it (or \em) does not seem to
work.
Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[Michael Covington]

It's more common to have bold slant than bold italics available.
Assuming you're working with 10-point type, try this:

\font tenboldslant = cmssbx10

Then use \tenboldslant to get this font.

For more information, look for similar lines in the file 'lfonts.sty'
included with LaTeX.

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[Andreas Schwab]

In article <2i3og9$m...@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>, mcov...@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:

|> In article <CK74I...@cs.uiuc.edu> sri...@cs.uiuc.edu (Srilata) writes:
|>> I am looking for suggestions to accomplish the following
|>> in Latex.
|>> How can I print a word in *both* Italics and Bold type ?
|>> A combination of \bf and \it (or \em) does not seem to
|>> work.
|>> Any assistance would be much appreciated. Thanks.

|> It's more common to have bold slant than bold italics available.
|> Assuming you're working with 10-point type, try this:

|> \font tenboldslant = cmssbx10

|> Then use \tenboldslant to get this font.

Or better, use NFSS; then you can write {\bf\sl text}.
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[Peter Flynn]

In plain TeX, fonts are not commutative, so only the last referenced font is used
(TeX is not a wordprocessor :-) But there is a bold italic font, cmbxti10, so

\font\bi=cmbxti10
...
this is {\bi bold italic} will work

///Peter