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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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stmaryrd and boldsymbol: avoid warnings
Here are two examples:
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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
$\boldsymbol x$
\end{document}
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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
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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 ...
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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 ...
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4answers
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A bold plus symbol in math mode
I'd like to use a different + symbol in addition to + in math mode, preferably one which is just bolder than the standard one.
I'm currently using \pmb{+} from the amsbsy package, but it's a bit too ...
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1answer
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Capital Sigma in bold mathrm
I want to write capital \Sigma in bold mathrm. I tried \boldsymbol{\mathrm{\Sigma}} but seems like this does not work. Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated. Thanks
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Bold square brackets
How do I typeset a bold square bracket? I need to typeset it about 3 times thicker than it is (to denote a specific mathematical operator). {\bf[} does not do this. Things like [\
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3answers
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Bold math: Automatic choice between \mathbf and \boldsymbol for Latin and Greek symbols?
This is a follow-up to this question.
Suppose you want to denote vectors by upright bold letters; then \mathbf{u} works fine, except that if it's a Greek letter you have to use \boldsymbol{\omega} ...
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\bm package versus \boldsymbol
I'm typing a bold vector small x with a tilde sign above it. Now when I want to write its derivative, I'm putting a dot on top of everything. This is giving me problems and I found one solution:
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How can I get bold math symbols?
To make Latin-letter variables bold I can use e.g. \mathbf{a}, but while putting Greek letters or symbols such as \nabla inside \mathbf doesn't cause any errors or warnings, it also doesn't do ...
