Re: Bold math

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Matthew Baker wrote:

> $ ... {\bi\mf x} ... $
> 
> Is this correct?  For x that works fine.  However,
> 
> $ ... {\bi\mf ff} ... $
> 
> gives the wrong thing.  In cmr, the spacing between the fs is simply too

Spacing in math is different. Just put a \hbox around it. 

> small.  In lbr I get something very strange indeed (a ligature that isn't
> in the font?).  Also I'm guessing
> 
> $ ... {\bi\mf\sigma} ... $

Taco? 

> should give me a bold italic sigma in lbr.  It's just a regular (unbold)
> sigma though.  This works correctly in pdflatex so the character is
> definately there and pdftex can find the font ok.
> 
> Actually these bold greek letters are one of the major reasons I bought
> the Lucida font set.  I keep having to typeset variance vectors :)

Ah, but i'm not sure if they are already defined in context. I'll see if
I can find myself the fonts (must be somewhere on my computer I think). 

Math is a bit problematic anyway, due to the lack of families in tex and
the fact that the last font switch dominates all, a (mis)feature of tex
(sideeffect actually). 

Hans

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