[texhax] \boldmath and times fonts

[W.J. Metzger]

Thanks, Lars.  That does the trick.

Wes

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Lars Madsen wrote:

> W.J. Metzger :
>
>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Lars Madsen wrote:
>>
>>> W.J. Metzger :
>>>
>>>> While I am normally quite happy with computer modern, I have a user who
>>>> insists on using times.  She does this by
>>>>
>>>> \usepackage{times}
>>>> \usepackage{mathptmx}
>>>> \usepackage{mathrsfs}
>>>>
>>>> But \boldmath, as in the following does not produce a bold x
>>>> \section{Rapidity and \boldmath{$x$} Dependence}
>>>>
>>>> Does someone know how to do this?
>>>>
>>>
>>> as far as I know one of the short commings of the times that comes with
>>> LaTeX
>>> is that it is mussing the bold math fonts.
>>>
>>> try using the bm package, and use
>>>
>>> $\bm{x}$
>>>
>>> maybe \boldmath even works now (I never user boldmath so I don't know).
>>>
>>> /daleif
>>
>> Thanks, Lars, for your suggestion.  I had in fact already tried bm and
>> given up when it clashed with the hyperref package resulting in
>> TeX capacity exceeded (see attached log) - the same occurs if I load
>> hyperref before the other packages.
>>
>> If I remove hyperref it works OK.  So it looks like one has to choose
>> between bm and hyperref.
>>
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage{bm}
> \usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}
> \DeclareBoldMathCommand{\balpha}{\alpha}
> \begin{document}
>
> \tableofcontents
>
> % \section{Test $\bm{\alpha}$} % this dies with hyperref
>
> \section{Test $\balpha$} % works with hyperref, but bookmarks complain
>
>
> sdf
>
> \end{document}
>
>
>
> /daleif
>

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