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From: jxp@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Joe Petrolito)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: bold greek letters?
Message-ID: <1938@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au>
Date: 4 Oct 90 00:56:37 GMT
References: <1990Oct1.152256.20089@irisa.fr> <_AQ%?G=@rpi.edu>
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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 $$\balpha$$.