rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) (10/02/90)
I would like to be able to set the \beta character in bold for a paper to be published. Can someone give me a hint about how to do it? The secretary tried $\bold \beta$, and TeX took it, but nothing was printed. Do we just need to create that font or is it a bigger problem? Please reply quickly -- deadline is near. email to : rodney@ipl.rpi.edu Thanks, Rodney -- Rodney
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (10/03/90)
In article <_AQ%?G=@rpi.edu> rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes:
I would like to be able to set the \beta character in bold for a paper to
be published. Can someone give me a hint about how to do it? The secretary
tried $\bold \beta$, and TeX took it, but nothing was printed. Do we just
need to create that font or is it a bigger problem?
if you look in (I think) lplain.tex, you find that \theta is
explicitly defined as coming from math family 1:
\mathchardef\theta="0112
no amount of font changes will affect this. the \boldmath command
changes meaning of math family 1 to be a bold one. maybe someone out
there can tell us how to solve this in general? in the meanwhile, I
hack it by
\mathchardef\btheta="0512
making \btheta produce a bold theta from math family 5, which I have
defined to be maths bold. Unfortunately, I use M & S font selection
macros, so I define the family with
\newmathalphabet*\bfm{cmm}{b}{it}
which wont help you if you not a `font selection macro' person. its
also hacky, as it relies on me noticing that the bold math was
assigned to family 5. but it works in the short term
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Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)walter@hpsadle.HP.COM (Walter Coole) (10/04/90)
Our system has a cmmib10 font that should have a bold beta, you just need to figure out how to install and use it. Another approach is the "poor man's bold" described in the TeX book.
jxp@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Joe Petrolito) (10/04/90)
In article <_AQ%?G=@rpi.edu>, rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II) writes: > I would like to be able to set the \beta character in bold for a paper to > be published. Can someone give me a hint about how to do it? The secretary > tried $\bold \beta$, and TeX took it, but nothing was printed. Do we just > need to create that font or is it a bigger problem? Use the following: \font\bg=cmbi10 \def\balpha{\hbox{\bg{\char'013}} % this defines a bold alpha - see p 430 of % Texbook for codes Using the same procedure you can define other bold Greek that you need. Note that they must be used in math mode eg $\balpha$ or $$\balpha$$.