I'm marking up some text that includes "l" as a vector, so I'd like to be able to use a bold font. \mathbf{l}
gives a straight up-and-down kind of l which looks like a 1 (one) or an I (capital "i"):
I don't want to use \ell
because I don't want the loop and for some reason my system won't make the corresponding glyph bold for me.
What I'd like looks more like this:
What are my options?
\ell
, withamsmath
,\boldsymbol\ell
gives a bold\ell
with the curly tail. – Andrew Swann May 31 '16 at 10:15