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Re: Fourier and amsart: msg#00523

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Subject: Re: Fourier and amsart

Le 28 juin 04, à 04:38, Richard Seguin a écrit :

However, using Fourier, $\mathbf{T}$ is bold, but is upright, and $\boldsymbol{T}$ is not bold, but is italic.

This is normal behaviour. \mathbf allows to use the text bold font in maths, in other words it produces in maths the same output as does \textbf in text; hence the upright result.

\boldsymbol, from the amsbsy package (deprecated in favour of bm), and \bm, from the bm package, do something different: they select bold maths fonts, provided these fonts are available. In other words they take the (italic) math symbol you are asking for, look for a bold version of it, and, if it's available, pick it up; if it's not, they apparently revert to the non-bold version. Both \boldsymbol and \bm aim at providing more practical and extensive variants of LaTeX's original \boldmath.

Bruno Voisin



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