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Article #1762Re: Boldface greek letters....How to?
From: dhosek
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:26
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:26
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In article <1992Aug27.002200.6849@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>, jxp@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Joe Petrolito) writes:
> Wolfgang Ratzka <wolfgang.ratzka@rphs1.physik.uni-regensburg.de> writes:
>>In LaTeX I use (Warning, Poor Man's bold is not very pretty)
> You don't need to do this! Try this:
> \font\bgreek=cmmib10 % bold symbols at 10 pt (see p430 of TeXbook for font)
> \def\balpha{\hbox{\bgreek\char`013}} % gives a bold alpha, etc.
> Now you can say $$x = \balpha$$.
But if you looked closely at his definition, you'd see that the
poor man's bold was only used for scriptsized letters. Even OFSS
LaTeX handled 10pt boldmath fine.
-dh
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