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Hanspeter Schaub

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Jun 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/17/97
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I am using LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e styles. How does one make some characters
bold in the math equation environment? I would need both bold regular
letters
a b c d e ...
and bold greek letters
\alpha \beta \gamma ....

Any pointers appreciated,

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HP
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Ryurick M. Hristev

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Jun 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/18/97
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sch...@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) writes:

> I am using LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e styles. How does one make some characters
> bold in the math equation environment? I would need both bold regular
> letters
> a b c d e ...
> and bold greek letters
> \alpha \beta \gamma ....
>
> Any pointers appreciated,

For regular letters \mathbf, e.g. $ \mathbf{a} $
For greek letters \boldsymbol, e.g. $ \boldsymbol{\alpha} $

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Hanspeter Schaub

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Jun 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/18/97
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Subject(Re: bold symbols in math equation) you wrote

> sch...@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) writes:
>
> > I am using LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e styles. How does one make some characters
> > bold in the math equation environment? I would need both bold regular
> > letters
> > a b c d e ...
> > and bold greek letters
> > \alpha \beta \gamma ....
> >
> > Any pointers appreciated,
>
> For regular letters \mathbf, e.g. $ \mathbf{a} $
> For greek letters \boldsymbol, e.g. $ \boldsymbol{\alpha} $

Thanks for the tip, the command /mathbf worked for letters, but \boldsymbol seems to be unknown. I'm I missing some style file or fonts?

Hanspeter Schaub
sch...@tamu.edu


Timothy Murphy

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Jun 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/18/97
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sch...@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) writes:

>I am using LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e styles. How does one make some characters
>bold in the math equation environment?

It is best to use LaTeX2e, ie start with \documentclass .
Then \usepackage{amsbsy} and you can say eg

\[
\boldsymbol{a} = \boldsymbol{\alpha}
\]

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Timothy Murphy

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Jun 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/18/97
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sch...@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) writes:

>Thanks for the tip, the command /mathbf worked for letters, but \boldsymbol seems to be unknown. I'm I missing some style file or fonts?

\usepackage{amsbsy}

(Works also with roman letters.)

Frank Mittelbach

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Jun 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/19/97
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Timothy Murphy wrote:
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> sch...@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) writes:
>
> >Thanks for the tip, the command /mathbf worked for letters, but \boldsymbol seems to be unknown. I'm I missing some style file or fonts?
>
> \usepackage{amsbsy}
>
> (Works also with roman letters.)

or look at the bm.sty which comes with the tools distribution of latex
(since 1.Jun 97), it was originally written to support mathtime bold
fonts but we ended up having a really generic and extensible solution
which is producing better results than the amsbsy package

for backward compatibility it also defines \boldsymbol so can be used
with old documents as well

frank

btw anybody noticed that it is 1. Jun?

George Gratzer

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Jun 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/19/97
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In article <33A93F...@de.eds.com>, Frank Mittelbach

<fmit...@de.eds.com> wrote:
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> frank
>
> btw anybody noticed that it is 1. Jun?

I did, but in fact the new distribution did not show up until yesterday...
(June 18).

So it is a generalized June 1.

But I am not complaining.

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Winnipeg MB Canada

Berthold K.P. Horn

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Jun 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM6/26/97
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phy...@ANTISPAMphys.canterbury.ac.nz (Ryurick M. Hristev) writes:

> sch...@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub) writes:

> > I am using LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e styles. How does one make some characters

> > bold in the math equation environment? I would need both bold regular
> > letters
> > a b c d e ...
> > and bold greek letters
> > \alpha \beta \gamma ....

> > Any pointers appreciated,

> For regular letters \mathbf, e.g. $ \mathbf{a} $
> For greek letters \boldsymbol, e.g. $ \boldsymbol{\alpha} $

Also check out the `bm' (bold math) package, recently `promoted' from

/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported to
/tex-archive/macros/latex/packages/tools

It is particularly handy when used with bold math in MathTime or LucidaBright.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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