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\boldsymbol
- To: math-font-discuss@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- Subject: \boldsymbol
- From: Michael Downes <MJD@MATH.AMS.ORG>
- Date: 19 Aug 1993 12:25:50 -0400 (EDT)
> ... the best solution at the present time
> would seem to be a macro like AMSTeX's \boldsymbol that does something
> clever to select the right math family by looking at the meaning of
> its argument.
Or better, I should have said, the current proposal from Justin's
document, something like AMS-LaTeX's \boldsymbol command that goes
into a \mathchoice{\hbox{...}}... and wholesale changes all math fams
to point to bold fonts instead of nonbold fonts. The \meaning approach
is not so robust.