{bold} is specifically about making document elements bold (or removing this font attribute). For general questions about formatting document elements, use {formatting} instead.
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Why are some pages in my PDF coming out bold?
When I run my LaTeX document through pdflatex, some of the pages (the ones where figures appear) have all the text bolded. Why, and what can I do to make it stop?
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6answers
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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 ...
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votes
3answers
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Blackboard bold characters
The blackboard bold font in the AMSFonts package only has capital letters. I sometimes wish to use a blackboard bold "1", for which I can use \usepackage{bbold}. But this changes the entire ...
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5answers
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Is it possible to have certain words in the document always in bold?
I am writing an AWK programming book and when I explain things, I refer to special AWK variables all the time, such as ORS. Is it possible to set LaTeX up in such a way that these words are always in ...
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votes
4answers
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Make first row of table all bold
I'm trying to do something that I thought would be relatively simple but seems to be quite hard. I have a table with a number of columns, and I'd like to make all of the titles appear in bold text. ...
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votes
3answers
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How to put \verb command inside of \textbf{} block?
It looks like you can't use \verb|...| inside of \textbf{...}. I tried the following:
\textbf{Be very careful when using \verb|-i| as it's destructive and it's not reversible!}
And got this error:
...
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votes
3answers
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Small Caps and Bold Face
I can't seem to have both the small caps and boldface styles on a line:
\huge\sc\bf Hello
This will generate bold text, and if the \sc is placed after, it will generate small caps text but not ...
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votes
2answers
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Bold italic vectors
I am trying to display vectors as bold and italic. The command \mathbf sets the letters non-italic. I also googled a bit and stumbled upon \mathbf{\em y} or \mathbfit{y}, which all didn't work.
I ...
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votes
1answer
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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, ...
8
votes
1answer
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Url with fragments in bold
I need to write document containing a lot of URLs but some fragments of these URLs have to be in bold. How can I accomplished this? For urls I use \nolinkurl but I can't use \bf in it.
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votes
1answer
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Boldface and subscripts in verbatim mode?
How do I create boldface and subscripts in verbatim mode? I've seen mention of a fancyvrb package that might be able to help. Can anyone provide working LaTeX code, either with or without fancyvrb?
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votes
3answers
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Bold one cell in table using CSV reader
Is it possible to bold a single desired cell (or number of cells) using csvreader (besides the head)? Here is an example of making the table.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{csvsimple}
% Make ...
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votes
1answer
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How to change the appeareance of bibliography item labels in amsrefs?
Assume that I'd like to set the item labels in the "references" list in amsrefs in, say, boldface (or in lining numbers - I have oldstyle numbers set throughout the document). I can do it in ...
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votes
3answers
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How can I redefine bold to mean “semi-bold”?
I'm using a type family that supports a semi-bold (sb) face, and I'd like to use that whenever \textbf is called for. How can I redefine \textbf to do this? Can I do it on a per family basis, or only ...
10
votes
5answers
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Using bold/italic text inside listings?
How can I use bold text inside a code listing? I wanted to make some parts of the code bold.
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5answers
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\textbf{text} without increasing the length of the text
When using \textbf{text}, the length of text will be increased. Is there a way to make the text bold face without increasing its length?
edit:
Thanks to @Herbert and @Martin, here is a perfect ...
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votes
4answers
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Using \ttfamily with \bfseries (or how to enable bold in fixed-width font)
I'm using listings package, and I've added basicstyle=\ttfamily\footnotesize. However, when I do that, the keywords from the embedded source-code are not bold anymore.
I figured that \ttfamily ...
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votes
2answers
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Level of “boldness” changeable?
In my document which I compile with pdflatex (Ubuntu 11.04 TeX Live package). I use the Sans Serif font. Some keywords should be printed bold. I use the {\bf text} construct for this.
However, the ...
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votes
4answers
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Bold text and newlines inside equations.
What I'm doing:
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{eucal}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
% don't know what some of those do, but i think all the math related ones are
% ...
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votes
1answer
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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:
...
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votes
1answer
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Set the “font-weight: lighter/ bolder”
I need to know how to set the "font-weight: lighter/ bolder"
font-weight: lighter/ bolder
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\begin{document}
\font\ta="Times New Roman":color=ff0000 ...
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3answers
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“Correct” way to bold/italicize text?
Is either of these considered better/more readable/more "proper"/more conventional than the other for making text bold? If so, what is the reason?
I like my text \textbf{bold}
versus:
I like my ...
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votes
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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votes
1answer
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Make specific author bold using biblatex
I am writing my CV in LaTeX. I am using biblatex and want my name (and only my name) to be bold for every reference. Is there a magic way to do this?
A similar question Make one author's name ...
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votes
4answers
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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 ...
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votes
2answers
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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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votes
1answer
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Adding bold labels to two different addresses in moderncv
I found this link here which was what I was looking for. It allows one to add two addresses to a CV written in moderncv. But I wanted to know how to modify the code so that labels like "Present ...
5
votes
1answer
60 views
\bfseries and alignment in table
I'm trying to highlight some decimal-point aligned entries in two large tables which are arranged in two columns. I'm using \bfseries to do this and unfortunately this seems to be affecting the ...
8
votes
2answers
4k views
Bold, italic math (\bm) and sansmath
I'm typesetting both text and math in Latin Modern, except for the figures, where I would like to use a sans serif font for both text and math.
I need to follow the ISO recommendations for math ...
8
votes
3answers
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horizontal alignment of dot over hat over bold greek letter!
For some strange reason, this:
\hat{\dot{\bm{\phi}}}
prints the dot and the hat slightly off the left of the phi letter. Any ideas if this can be fixed? thanks.
Using bm package for bold symbols.
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votes
1answer
963 views
Bold small caps with mathpazo
I was using tgpagella but it doesn't have automatic old style numbers without resorting to fontspec. I was directed to use mathpazo like so:
\usepackage[sc,osf]{mathpazo}
How do I format mathpazo ...
3
votes
3answers
351 views
bold small caps with mathpazo
The URW Palldio font (mathpazo package) does not provide bold small caps. To get round this issue, I'd want to make a macro to use small caps usually and normal caps in bold text.
I tried this code:
...
10
votes
1answer
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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 ...
10
votes
1answer
351 views
Elegant way to make entire citation bold
Is it possible to make an entire reference appear bold in the references section when using BibTeX? I'm using the IEEE templates and .bst.
I found this related question, but is there a more elegant ...
9
votes
2answers
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Abbreviations for AM, PM (small caps) for use within \textbf
I have been using \textsc for the abbreviations for AM, PM, but it does not work within \textbf{}. As you can see in the image, within a \textbf{}, it reverts to the normal lower case letter. Ulrike ...
9
votes
4answers
5k views
Bold calligraphic typeface
I know \mathcal{ABC...}, but can't seem to bold these - thanks for help - PMF
8
votes
1answer
361 views
siunitx: Bold single numeric cells
I'm struggling to make a single numeric cell in an siunitx table bold. (A similar question for making a whole column bold is available here.)
I want to define a simple macro which I can set for the ...
7
votes
1answer
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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.
...
7
votes
1answer
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Define command for bold list-item
I have a set of commands for producing various kinds of specific list-items, such as
\newcommand{\staritem}{\item[$\star$]} % not really, but you get the gist
All the ones I currently have can be ...
6
votes
1answer
497 views
Why does \dot over \vec over {\bf E} gives a tilde?
When using AMSmath and trying to put a \dot over a \vec of a bold symbol it works, but subsequent instances have a tilde instead of a vector over the bold symbol, and strangely my partial wrt become ...
6
votes
2answers
5k views
Bold sans-serif font in LaTeX
How can one format a chapter or section heading in bold using a sans-serif font? I tried \textsf{\textbf{bold sans-serif text}}, but it does not seem to work. Any idea?
6
votes
1answer
287 views
Lighter version of sans serif typeface
I am using the Frutiger font as the sans serif font in my document. It is invoked by
\renewcommand{\sfdefault}{pfr}
However this font is too bold for my taste. There is a ligher version available. ...
6
votes
2answers
2k views
Bold Typewriter Type fonts
I found out that there are cmbtt10 and cmttb10 fonts available. Unfortunately they are not used until I activate them with the \font macro, so just searching for those fonts is not possible.
The ...
5
votes
2answers
558 views
Bold italic math with unicode-math
How can I get the output I get without unicode-math using unicode-math, preferably (not necessarily) using the same code (\boldmath)? I would like the solution to work with at least the XITS and Latin ...
5
votes
3answers
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remove boldface from chapter titles, section and subsection names
How is it possible to remove the boldface from chapter titles, section and subsection names? I have found the following code for sections, but I can't find a way for chapters and subsections.
...
5
votes
5answers
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A problem with \textsc
I started to write my CV in LaTeX. My document begins as
\documentclass[a4paper]{amsart}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[finnish]{babel}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
{\large ...
5
votes
1answer
2k views
4
votes
1answer
315 views
Creating a bold and indented title.
Im working with an existing template and I need to make my sections bold and my subsections indented. I use the titlesec package.
My Section style is this
...
4
votes
2answers
287 views
How to disable oldstyle numerals in a boldface text in Linux Libertine?
This document compiles (in XeLaTeX), but the boldface numbers are set oldstyle. Why? How to use boldface lining digits with Linux Libertine?
\documentclass{article}
\RequirePackage{fontspec}
...
4
votes
1answer
558 views
text gets slightly bold when adding graphics [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are some pages in my PDF coming out bold?
I have problem with text on the page with a graph, it gets slightly thicker. The text on the next page without graph is ...
