Re: Bold math

[Matthew Baker <mbaker@zeus.gmd.de>]

On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Matthew Baker wrote:
> 
> There are some examples in the big dutch beta one? Do you have that one?
> I'll send you a typeset docu file of font-ini. Tells it in english. 

Ah, the beta version.  I read the older (even bigger) version.  The
typeset font-ini makes it clearer though, thank you.  However I still have
some difficulties.  To get something in bold math font, I do
something like

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

$ ... {\bi\mf\sigma} ... $

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 :)

- Matthew

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