May be related How can I get bold math symbols?
I use Scientific word, and when I wanted to make some symbols and letters as vectors. So I select, in math mode, a symbol, and then using the menu, select the bold
option, it generates this code, using \mathbf
. Here is an example
\[
\mathbf{V}_{p/2}=\mathbf{\dot{R}}_{3/2}+\mathbf{\omega}_{3/2}\times
\mathbf{\rho}_{3p}+\mathbf{\dot{\rho}}_{3p,r}%
\]
The above, when compiled with Latex, shows the \rho
as not bold. Screen shot below.
Next, I changed the selection from the menu to boldsymbol
instead of bold
and this the new code generated:
\[
\mathbf{V}_{p/2}=\mathbf{\dot{R}}_{3/2}+\mathbf{\omega}_{3/2}\times
\boldsymbol{\rho}_{3p}+\boldsymbol{\dot{\rho}}_{3p,r}%
\]
Now the \rho
does show as bold when compiled. I was wondering why that is. I would have thought both will be bold, but different fonts? Bit confusing, since I thought what shows on the screen will be what shows in the PDF file. (ps. this issue affects \omega
as well as \rho
but not the letter R
as can be seen)
Here is a screen shot. I am using TL 2013 to compiled the .tex code. (I only use SW to type in the Latex via the GUI). Compiled on Linux mint.
Fyi, the options I have to change the fonts are these shown in this screen shot.