[Tugindia] Bold math

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, kumarasamy Shanmugam wrote:

>
> --- renu at aero.iisc.ernet.in wrote:
>
>> $X_{\alpha, \bm{$\beta$}}$
>>
>> i.e I wanted the subscript $\beta$ in bold.
>>
>> I am getting normal $\beta$ in boldmath using
>> \bm{$\beta$} but not the one which comes subscript.
>>
>
> use \boldsymbol

No, bm.sty is much better than boldsymbol. Boldsymbol only works if 
there is a corresponding bold symbol. If there is no bold symbol, bm 
creates a poor man bold symbol by redrawing the character a few times. 
Read the bm.sty documentation for details.

Aditya