# How Can I get bold math symbols into a glossary?

I'd like to add a mathematical Expression to my glossary:

\newglossaryentry{Fst}{
name        = {$F_{st}$-value},
description = {Inbreeding coefficient,...},
sort        = {fst}
}


Unfortunately, the Expression is not written in bold letters. According to How can I get bold math symbols? I tried:

\newglossaryentry{Fst}{
name        = {$\bm{F_{st}}$-value},
description = {Inbreeding coefficient,...},
sort        = {fst}
}


But this writes Fst in bold letters not only in the glossary, but also in the main text (while -value is in bold letters in the glossary, and in normal letters in the text).

Is there a way to add mathematical formulas to the glossary in bold letters, and to the main text in normal letters?

• Using \boldmath before \printglossary? – egreg Nov 12 '13 at 22:45
• What exactly do you mean? I have some other formulas within the glossary, which should be normal. Only the name of the glossary entry should be in bold face, and only if its within the "glossary-start" and not when its linked within the text of another glossary entry. – Sven Nov 12 '13 at 23:13
• Please, add a small, but complete example. We can't know what you want to have in your glossary, can we? – egreg Nov 12 '13 at 23:14
• I understand that you want glossary terms to be in bold, but I would be very wary of defining a term in bold that isn't bold where it's used, because bold changes the meaning in maths. Here's a common example: r is a radius, r is a position vector. – Chris H Nov 13 '13 at 8:51
• You could try using the text key for the non-bold version and have the bold version in the name key, or you can remove the math shift from the name key and define a custom style that puts the name in math bold. – Nicola Talbot Nov 13 '13 at 9:44

You can use the text key if you want a different display in the document text to that shown in the glossaries. Example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{glossaries}

\makeglossaries

\newglossaryentry{Fst}{
name        = {$\boldsymbol F_{st}$-value},
text        = {$F_{st}$-value},
description = {Inbreeding coefficient,...},
sort        = {fst}
}

\begin{document}

In document text: \gls{Fst}.

\printglossaries

\end{document}


This produces: