[texhax] Bold math characters

[Srinivas R. Chakravarthy]

Could someone help me to resolve the issue dealing with installing 
MikTex 2.7 in my new machine? I get the following error message.

An error occurred:
  source file: 
C:\work3\miktex-2.7\Libraries\MiKTeX\Extractor\TarExtractor.cpp
  source line: 53
  message: Invalid octal field.
  info:

Thanks! Srinivas

Michael Barr wrote:
> That does exactly what I was looking for.
>
> Thanks, Michael
>
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Lars Madsen wrote:
>
>   
>> Michael Barr wrote:
>>     
>>> >From reading the Latex Companion (Second printing, 1994), page 179, one
>>>  would expect that
>>>  {\mathversion{bold} $a$}
>>>  and
>>>  $\mathbf a$
>>>  would produce the same output.  But they don't.  The first gives a bold
>>>  version of the \mit a and the second a bold upright a.  Suppose you have
>>>  a more complicated formula that you want the first kind of a, but
>>>  nothing else bold.  Is there an easy way to do it?
>>>
>>>  Michael Barr
>>>
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>> \usepackage{bm}
>>
>> \bm{a}
>>
>> /daleif
>>
>>
>>     
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