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How to add multiple/conditional fallbacks (fonts) using fontspec and lualatex?

MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{luacode} \usepackage{fontspec} % Note that I don't use emoji in this example, % but the font for them must be present (not removed). \begin{luacode*} ...
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How to add (fake) bold feature to fallback font using luaotfload luatex

I have this in my preamble: \usepackage{luacode} \begin{luacode*} luaotfload.add_fallback("FallbackFonts", { "Noto Color Emoji:mode=harf", "Noto Sans CJK JP:" }) \end{...
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fontspec not recognizing custom bold font

I'm trying to convert a persian book written in MS Word to LaTeX (i'm using Overleaf as i'm a noob) and said book has a lot of words in bold. \textbf{} doesn't seem to be working with the custom font ...
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Bold authors' names in reference list

I try to make the names of authors bold in my bibliography, and keep them normal (unbold) in the document body \cite{Smith2005Latex}. How can I do that? \documentclass[a4paper,twoside,twocolumn,...
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Incorporating a Spanish Accent in a Word to be Displayed in Bold

Consider the code \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{amsthm,latexsym,amssymb,amsmath,verbatim} \oddsidemargin -15pt \evensidemargin -15pt \topmargin -25pt \headheight -5pt \headsep 0pt \...
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How to get a font weight bolder than \textbf{}?

I have been trying to reproduce a Beamer presentation template from a former teacher but I can't find out how they managed to change the font weight to be this bold. How can I get the font on the ...
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Polyglossia changes the bold letters from algorithms

I compile the tex document with XeLaTeX. When I put on my premable this \setdefaultlanguage{greek}, table of content and algorithms special words loses their bold letters and I got an output like that....
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Bold text cancels the small caps format

I'm trying to put a text in small caps bold, but I'm noticing that as soon as I apply the bold, ovverrides the small caps rule. Isn't that in LaTex, these two rules don't live together? This is my ...
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Using bold math with mtpro2 lite

By using the "lite" version of the MathTime Professional II fonts, and correspondingly loading the mtpro2 package I only get a "poor-man's" bold math type. Is it possible to have a "true" bold math ...
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There is no bold text, italics in IEEEtran (using xepersian)?

I have a problem of non-working \textbf, \bfseries commands (and almost all changing fontstyle commands) in Persian document (in English, everything is okay) in \documentclass[journal,onecolumn,11pt,...
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Change formatting of an element in ChoiceMenu

Is there anyway to change color in the \ChoiceMenu items such as Item 1, Item 2, etc.? Or even bolding individual choices would work... I tried \textbf{Item 1} and \color{blue}{Item 1} and they both ...
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Bibliography style acm.bst - volume's number bold

I am using acm.bst bibliography style. The only change I need is to make bold the volume numbers of Journals. It seems that the function which takes care of giving the output of the citation style of ...
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texlive font problem

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 and TeX Live 2022. After that, bold and italic \bf \em don't work. Moreover, chapter and section titles are set in default font without bold. I purged and re-...
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Extending a John Kormylo Answer for Color Shading a Portion of a Paragraph to Produce Bold Text as Well

This post is an extension of the question posed in How to Contiguously Shade a Portion of a Paragraph with Color Consider the code \documentclass{book} \usepackage{xcolor} \colorlet{soulred}{red!25} \...
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Specifying Ahead of Time Both the Color of All Drop Caps and That Their Associated Text be Bold

Consider the code \documentclass{book} \usepackage{lettrine} \usepackage{xcolor} \setcounter{DefaultLines}{3} \setlength{\DefaultFindent}{0em} \setlength{\DefaultNindent}{.17em} \renewcommand{\...
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How to make bold numbers in Beamer using Madrid theme?

I am writing a presentation and using the BEAMER mode in the MADRID theme. This is my preamble: \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} ...
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Text not showing as bold in slides

I am preparing some slides and want to use bold text occasionally in a definition. I can use bold text outside a definition, but it just wont work inside. I was sent a template for the slides and I ...
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Bold Greek text in a tabular (text mode)

I simply do not know how to get the Greek text in bold. Is the problem that I'm using the wrong macro for the tabular environment? OR, that I did not set the fonts correctly? I don't need everything ...
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Matrix Notation: Detect if Argument is Greek Letter (or Command)

I am trying to implement a matrix/vector notation that makes simple bold vectors with \newcommand{\vec}[1]{\bm{#1}} and I used to do the same for matrices (with a command \mat). However, I want to ...
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Single italic word in section title

I would like the section title to be: Title wordinitalic title. The combination \section{Title \textit{wordinitalic} title} prints out "worditalic" skinny and not as bold as "Title" or "title". Yes, ...
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Why is bold vectorization of "v"not working?

So I have the following setup in my preamble, \def\ve#1{\mathchoice{\mbox{\boldmath$\displaystyle\bf#1$}} {\mbox{\boldmath$\textstyle\bf#1$}} {\mbox{\boldmath$\scriptstyle\bf#1$}} {\mbox{\...
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Scale bold capital letters

I have my custom fonts. They are fine in terms of size. However the bold fonts for capital letters are too big and I do not know how to normalize their size. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{...
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semi-bold mathsf

I would like to use a bold (or better a semi-bold) \mathsf font with mathpazo + eulervm. However, using only these two packages such a possibility does not seem to exist (note that in the following ...
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Titlesec / AutoFakeBold making pdf figures bold

I have a simple MWE similar to the following: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage[letterpaper, left=19mm, right=19mm, top=3.52cm, bottom=2.84cm, headheight=38.7pt]{geometry} \usepackage{...
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Way to make mixed text and math mode bold with a single command

Is there a way to make the following bold by wrapping in a single command? This is a some text with $\psi$ and other math symbols such as $\Delta m$ etc. Or at least a single command to work on $\...
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how Do I Enhace (bold, Underline or Italise) texts in twenty seconds cv

I am trying to use the twenty-second CV class to create my CV, and I would like to enhance (bolden, underline or italicise) some texts, like underlining the places I have worked and bolding the key ...
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Making Table of Contents entries boldface

So far, I want to create this kind of Table of Contents for my research proposal: Sadly, all I have is this one: Here's my MWE: \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report} \usepackage{indentfirst} \...
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Align bold numbers with roman ones in table of contents

General overview In TOC the page numbers of chapters (in bold) and section (in normal font) occur a ugly shift. I search a way to make them aligned. MWE Here is a MWE to reproduce this behavior: \...
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unable to typeset in bold with tgbonum

I am writing a presentation (beamer class) in MiKTex and for some reason I need to use the tgbonum typeface. The issue is that I am unable to generate bold text. Actually, I do receive the following ...
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pgfplotstable with bold an repeated headlines and sorting

My problem is similar to that of: Sorting in Pgfplotstable not working but it is not quite answered there. This user wants to sort a table { Matrikelnummer;Note 1010123;1.4 1010121;2.3 1010122;1.1 ...
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How to make colon of \cvitem \cvdoubleitem bold?

Here's a example: \documentclass[10pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} % possible options include font size ('10pt', '11pt' and '12pt'), paper size ('a4paper', 'letterpaper', 'a5paper', 'legalpaper', '...
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Bold citations with page number

I'm trying to change all of my citation call-outs into bold font. I found similar questions where the where a simple macro was used to change the \citep and \citet commands. However, while this works ...
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fontspec: No autofakebold when given boldfont

I am writing a latex macro. I know that \defaultfontfeatures{AutoFakeBold=4} can open fake bold in fontspec but this will use fake bold if or not BoldFont is given I want a function like: if no ...
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How to change font in RusselResume Overleaf

I am trying to use the RusselResume template to write my resume on Overleaf, but I would like to change the font. Right now this is what was already written: \newcommand*{\headerfont}{\roboto} \...
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How can I use a custom mathbf font?

My current font configuration is as follows: \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[osf,sc]{mathpazo} \usepackage[scaled=0.90]{helvet} \usepackage[scaled=0.85]{beramono} \linespread{1.025} \...
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Bold math symbols in chapter headers and symbol for the Laplacian

I recently asked a question in this forum on how to get bold math symbols in a chapter header and I got recommended the packages \usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath} \usepackage{bm} The two problems I've ...
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Cannot compile bold text with specified font

I'm trying to do a title page so I can reuse it for multiple works in my University. I'm obligated to use Times New Roman (which explains the usage of Nimbus Roman as an alternative). It almost works, ...
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Title with big bold font

I want the title Fredholm Integral Transforms to be displayed in large bold text. With \HUGE I did not get a change in the font. \documentclass{book} \usepackage{geometry} \geometry{...
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get equivalent boldness given by /section command

How to obtain a comparable font "boldness" resulting from \section command with normal text formatting ones in the following text paragraph ? If I'm not mistaken the \textbf seems to ...
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How do I top strikethrough (\sout) interfering with bold font (\textbf) in Chinese?

MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xeCJK} \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} \begin{document} \textbf{a a a} a a a,\textbf{aaa}aaa. \sout{\textbf{a a a} a a a,\textbf{aaa}aaa.} \textbf{我我我}我我我,\...
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Small caps bold

I downloaded and installed this font on my pc. In particular, I should have the normal, bold and semibold-italic versions. On latex, I tried to insert some text as small caps bold in this font, but it ...
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Lowercase bold calligraphic letters with \mathscr

On the page https://calligraphycalligraphy.blogspot.com/2020/11/50-calligraphy-font-latex.html?m=1, I found a lowercase calligraphic letter style, which I would like to implement in my LaTeX document. ...
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On the Extra and Ultra Bold Font Series

I could never be able to use Extra and Ulta Bold font series. Do you know how to define these. Below is my code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{anyfontsize} %\usefont{enc}{family}{series}{shape} \...
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Is there a way to write the text in a list in bold automatically?

Is there a way to write lists with enumerate in bold automatically? I'd be glad to just write \item text instead of \item \textbf{text} all the time.
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How to write bold all of the text?

I know how to write a paragraph with bold(with \textbf{}). But if I want write all of my pages with bold, how can I do it? A way is using \textbf{} at the beginning of my paragraphs. But I know there ...
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Redefine command chain

I've recently switched to To Times New Roman into my Latex report and I've noticed that bold greek letters are printed awfully when using commands like \bm{} or \boldsymbol{}. I've turned around the ...
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Issue about mixing font labels text and maths equations with \bm option

I try to generate a pdf from this source in python (matplotlib), in order to have a Latex style : mpl.use("pgf") rc_fonts = { "text.usetex": True, 'text.latex.preview': ...
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Unbolded subsection on the ToC including math expression or equation but bolded subsection on subsection header

I have the exactly similar question with this Making bold subsection-headings in math, but not bold in ToC. But i can't use \ce since i need an actual use for mathbf that is integral and differential ...
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Italics and emphasis in LyX

I have problems with the output to PDF from a LyX document. When I write a lemma or a theorem, its output is in bold instead of italics. Also, when I write a word in italics its output is in bold ...
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How to control the boldness for both text and math formulas

In the given picture I want to make the statement of the problem more bold but less the line "DM Your Answer!". ASimilarly I want to make math expressions bold but less bold than the logo of ...
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