Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: bold greek letters? Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 90 10:39:59 GMT References: <1990Oct1.152256.20089@irisa.fr> <_AQ%?G=@rpi.edu> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 27 In-reply-to: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu's message of 2 Oct 90 14:20:01 GMT 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 -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)