[Blindmath] Font Bolding in Latex

[Neil Soiffer]

With the caveat that not all fonts in TeX have bold face equivalents, tell
him to use

{\boldmath $... $}

Alternatively, I think this also works:

$\mathbf{...}$

I haven't tried this though...

Neil Soiffer
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On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Salisbury, Justin Mark <
SALISBURYJ08 at students.ecu.edu> wrote:

> I am trying to get one of my professors to bold the font in Latex for an
> exam.  I can see bold font better than larger font.  Does anyone know the
> Latex code to bold font?  I will forward all responses to him so that he may
> try it.
>
> In other words, if this were Microsoft Word with text, I would hit
> "Control+A" to select all text and then "Control+B" to bold all of the text.
>  What does he need to do in Latex?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Justin
>
> Justin M. Salisbury
> Undergraduate Student
> The University Honors Program
> East Carolina University
> salisburyj08 at students.ecu.edu
>
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