{bold} is specifically about making document elements bold (or removing this font attribute). For general questions about formatting document elements, use {formatting} instead.
2
votes
2answers
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How do I get selective bold in Verbatim? [duplicate]
I previously wrote a computer professional book in which I showed what the user typed on the console and the computer's resultant output. The way I liked to do this was with everything in courier and ...
5
votes
2answers
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Define a command for vectors, boldface letters, but not numbers
The purpose for this would be to leave scripts out of the equation. For example,
\renewcommand{\vec}[1]{\ensuremath{\mathbf{#1}}}
...
\vec{x_0}
would print the 0 as boldface, too. I know I can ...
4
votes
1answer
39 views
Create a weightier (bold) \bar
Here's my MWE, with my question embedded:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
The bar over the $E$ in $\bar E$ is a little too faint for my
taste. Or should I just go ...
1
vote
0answers
39 views
Bold \varnothing
I'm using the symbol \varnothing and it turns out I could do with a bold version of it.
Any ideas?
Also, I'm using \phi as a 'lowercase' version of it, any improvements to this strategy would also ...
8
votes
2answers
81 views
Dollar sign with txfonts and fontenc
I have a strange problem with the dollar sign ($) and \textbf{} when using the txfonts and fontenc packages. The dollar sign has a space after it. Both packages are required to reproduce the problem.
...
3
votes
0answers
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Babel shorthands has a problem with \bm package
Using the babel command \useshorthands{"} prevents \bm package to work normally.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\useshorthands{"}
\usepackage{bm}
...
2
votes
3answers
41 views
Bold text with nested braces
I'm sure this is an easy question, but I'm not sure what the proper terminology is to search for the answer.
$$\textbf{k_{1,1}}$$
LaTeX gets all confused by this. How can I make k_{1,1} bold?
2
votes
1answer
94 views
False bold integral symbol
Why do I get a false integral symbol when I do \bm{\int(2x}? I've just loaded the package bm in a usual way, and I'm not using any other different font in the preamble.
4
votes
2answers
145 views
Old style number, bold small caps, and Palatino
I'd like to be able to have all three of the following in my document:
the Palatino font
bold and small caps
old-style figures
I'm currently using mathpazo with the options [osf] to get 1 and 3, ...
1
vote
1answer
75 views
Making section headings bold and sans serif
I would like to make section headings bold and sans-serif (helvet package). I found a snippet that produces sans serif headings:
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}%
...
2
votes
1answer
143 views
Underfull \hbox badness 10000 \textbf
Simple code (new to LaTeX). Receiving these errors:
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 13--14
Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 15--26
Underfull \hbox (badness ...
6
votes
1answer
73 views
stmaryrd and boldsymbol: avoid warnings
Here are two examples:
1
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
$\boldsymbol x$
\end{document}
2
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
...
1
vote
1answer
99 views
How can I change the chapter title bold in the table of content?
I am using classicthesis package. I want to add boldface to the font of the chapter title in the table of content. In the FrontBackMatter/Contents file, I add the following code:
...
1
vote
1answer
111 views
How to change fontsize in lstlisting without losing bold syntax highlighting?
If I load the listing package to set nice code and change the font size (like suggested there: Shrinking monospace style for listings package), I lose the syntax highlighting, because the font does ...
6
votes
1answer
92 views
Spurious dot with xeCJK, TikZ
I have a very strange problem when using TikZ and xeCJK. I managed to extract this MWE from my original sources:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
...
2
votes
1answer
70 views
Overriding `\bfseries` and `\itshape` to do special things for certain families
My problem arises from trying to work around the issue described in question 26276: I want to use SizeFeatures to explicitly select another family for small sizes, but this causes bold / italic / etc. ...
3
votes
2answers
153 views
MinionPro semibold/medium
After a day of struggle I managed to install the full family of MinionPro font on LaTeX.
After an hour of googling I cannot figure out how to use the medium (semibold) font. Ideally I would have ...
1
vote
0answers
25 views
Bold text multiple paragraphs [duplicate]
What I want is to be able to do
\textbf{
paragraph 1
paragraph 2
}
but the compiler complains that I've put new paragraphs inside \textbf{}.
I had the same problem with \textcolor but this How ...
9
votes
1answer
221 views
Fake bold in LuaLaTeX
I am sometimes using a font that has no boldface, so I am wondering whether or not there is a way to use some fakebold-feature in LuaLaTeX.
The fontspec documentation explains a feature for XeLaTeX, ...
3
votes
1answer
93 views
Is there a bold italic \sigma and a sans serif bold italic \sigma?
And they look differently?
I'm trying to typeset iso conform (vectors bold italic and tensors sans serif bold italic).
Mechanical stress $\sigma$ is a tensor, but I also want to typeset the normal ...
2
votes
2answers
272 views
\ttfamily is too bold for me
I use the following settings for my listings:
\lstset{
%basicstyle=\ttfamily\tiny, % small
basicstyle=\ttfamily\scriptsize, % middle
}
But the font in the listings is too bold for me. I tried a ...
2
votes
0answers
57 views
typing in bold font in algorithmic environment [closed]
Is there a way to type some words in bold in an algorithmic environment? I want to have the word stop typed, but when I use \STOP, this gives me an error.
3
votes
1answer
119 views
Omit hanging indent in bibtex
I use \bibliographystyle{alpha} with bibtex (not biblatex). The document class is scrreprt. The output looks like
[Abc07] Example Abc. The title and all other stuff.
dddd. 2007.
[Bcd08] Ex ...
2
votes
1answer
105 views
How to set italics and bold shortcuts like *bold* or _italic_
I remember seeing a possible solution here, but can't find it.
Is there any way to simplify bold and italics so that instead of \textbf{bold text} and \textit{italics text} I use simple marks like ...
6
votes
2answers
193 views
How to get a bold wide tilde?
If I type
\boldmath $\widetilde T$\unboldmath
I get
where unfortunately the tilde above the T is a little flimsy for my taste.
Is there a better way to do this?
I found a paper that has ...
2
votes
1answer
55 views
Automate replacement of `\not` when in `\bm` mode
Hendrik Vogt has provided a \longnot macro to alleviate the issues related to
Interaction of \boldmath and \not. This seems to work fine, but I run into a snag when I try to automatically use ...
4
votes
1answer
100 views
Using Hashtag in macro
I had a problem putting the column headers in bold (in a table of course) using pgfplotstable. You can see the problem here
I found a way to work arround that. It isn't generic as I wanted it to be, ...
2
votes
1answer
64 views
Bold font issue with uarial package [closed]
I am using uarial for typesetting my document in Arial, but I found that there's no bold font. How can I have a boldface font with the uarial package?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{uarial}
...
3
votes
1answer
151 views
Using \scshape and \bfseries together
A very obvious one I suspect, but when I try to do the following the small caps are over-ruled by the boldface, so I get lowercase rhubarb rhubarb. Is there an easy way to get \scshape\bfseries?
...
10
votes
1answer
183 views
Interaction of \boldmath and \not
It seems that using \boldmath (or \bm) along with the \not does not quite work so well. Here is an example using \not\subseteq and \not\le
where the line representing negation does not stretch ...
3
votes
1answer
87 views
Does boldface sans-serif not work?
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand{\nptime}{\ensuremath{\sf NP}}
\newcommand{\bnptime}{\ensuremath{\sf\bf NP}}
\begin{document}
\nptime\\
\bnptime
\end{document}
I'm trying to make a macro to ...
2
votes
1answer
218 views
Bold Greek letters in achemso
I'm having trouble producing a bold capital "Pi" while using the achemso document class. The only success that I've had is by using \bm{\Pi} which produces an ugly result akin to "poor man's bold", ...
5
votes
2answers
123 views
article document class: remove boldface from all titles
My question relates to remove boldface from chapter titles, section and subsection names on removing boldface from chapter titles, section and subsection names, the difference being that I need to ...
16
votes
4answers
300 views
How to define a command that bolds the first letter of each word in the input argument?
I want to define a command that takes a sentence, a word or several words as input and bolds the first letter of each word. I need this mostly for abbreviations and so far I have done it manually in ...
10
votes
1answer
125 views
Partial italic text in PDF bookmarks
In my LaTeX file I've got some chapter titles with partial italicised text. With the hyperref package, I get the required bookmarks, etc. but the style for these partial italicised text disappears.
...
3
votes
2answers
202 views
Bibliography with biblatex: how to achieve bold labels using the authoryear-style?
I am currently writing my thesis with LaTeX using biblatex for citations and bibliography. I try to match a formal request regarding the first part of the bibliographic entries which have to look like ...
7
votes
1answer
67 views
Make numbers in table bold w/o changing width
I want to highlight some numbers in a table using \bf{}. However, the bold numbers also get wider but I want them to neatly line up with the rest. How can I avoid this?
1
vote
0answers
165 views
How to make bold and italic symbol inside an equation? [duplicate]
My problem is to make bold and italic symbol \widehat{abc}.
According to Online LaTeX Equation Editor I should use \boldsymbol, but it seems not to work in TeXMaker.
Also ...
7
votes
1answer
209 views
Problems with \bm and LuaLaTeX
I recently started using LuaLaTeX (after years of just pdflatex) and I seem to be having trouble with the bm package. For example, when I try to compile the simple document:
...
4
votes
2answers
262 views
How to make front-matter page number non-bold in ToC?
Shown in the following pic:
It seems the Roman page number for front-matter look too dark in ToC, so how to make it as normal font but not change the bold Arabic number for chapters?
7
votes
2answers
154 views
Bold cross references
I'm writing my PhD thesis in LaTeX and I have a lot of figures - each one is referenced within the text. So I have:
\begin{figure}[h]
...
...
\label{fig:stuff}
\end{figure}
then, later, in the ...
4
votes
1answer
94 views
show acronym in bold
I'm using the acronym package. The first time I use the acronym the full name will be written. What I would like is to have the acronym in bold while the full name is NOT in bold is that possible?
...
4
votes
2answers
176 views
colored table with some bold colored lines
How can I have a table with the following specifications:
The top and bottom lines are bold and all other horizontal and vertical lines are normal.
The whole table lines (including top and bottom ...
0
votes
0answers
129 views
Unwanted bold Chinese characters in LaTeX output? [closed]
I am working on a Chinese report and found that some text is bold in between paragraphs, which is unexpected.
OS: RHEL 6
LaTeX version: TeX Live 2011
\documentclass[11pt,table,a4paper]{article}
...
2
votes
1answer
116 views
Bold font problem while using Russian fonts
This refers to my previous question
not able to write bold characters using textbf
I installed the cm-extra font package but still there is a problem with boldface due to ...
0
votes
1answer
88 views
How to remove bold in ToC, ideally without a package
I am writing my thesis, using a document class unique to my university - based on the article class. I have to remove ALL bold formatting in the Table of Contents, and for some reason I get an error ...
7
votes
1answer
343 views
not able to write bold characters using textbf
I'm working on latex and R (swaeave) and I am using utf8 encoding but when I use \textbf{dataset}, the text is not bold. Below is part of my code. But I am not sure what is reason behind it.
...
4
votes
1answer
205 views
libertineotf and xelatex - bold smallcaps broken?
It seems like bold smallcaps don't work with libertineotf any longer? I am currently adjusting an old template which I was using with pdflatex, and I need those bold small caps:
...
7
votes
1answer
626 views
Unbold subsubsection title
I'm rather new to LaTeX, I am trying to get my article class document set up so that the section font is 16 pt and bold, the subsection is 14 pt and bold and the subsubsection is 14 pt and not bold. I ...
2
votes
2answers
124 views
New command for bold characters in math mode
I am using bold characters u,v,w,x in math mode. Is there a way to make a new command for that? Now I always have to type \bm{u}.
