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From: smagt@fwi.uva.nl (Patrick van der Smagt)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: bold-italics-math in all type sizes?
Message-ID: <1234@carol.fwi.uva.nl>
Date: 6 Sep 90 16:39:31 GMT
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In article <1230@carol.fwi.uva.nl> smagt@fwi.uva.nl (Patrick van der Smagt) writes:
>Some time ago I requested solutions for the problem that \boldmath
>doesn't work in footnotes or sup/subscripts.  The solution I am using
>now is:
>
>\def\bm#1{
>  \setbox1=\hbox{$#1$}
>  \copy1\kern-\wd1\kern0.05ex\copy1\kern-\wd1\kern0.05ex\box1
>}
>
Ok, this is dumb, an improved version would be

\def\bm#1{%
  \mathchoice%
       {\setbox1=\hbox{$#1$}\dobm}
       {\setbox1=\hbox{$#1$}\dobm}
       {\setbox1=\hbox{\scriptsize$#1$}\dobm}
       {\setbox1=\hbox{\tiny$#1$}\dobm}
}
\def\dobm{
    \copy1\kern-\wd1\kern0.05ex\copy1\kern-\wd1\kern0.05ex\box1
}

or something to the same extent (thanks to Raymond Chen 
(raymond@math.berkeley.edu) who pointed out this blooper.
Never publish anything untested.)


Patrick van der Smagt