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How can I get bold math symbols?
I would like to distinguish between a vector of betas and the individual betas and I want to use bold symbol, rather than an error, to indicate the vector.
However, I see from How can I get bold math symbols? pointed out by @Werner that there is no difference between \beta and \mathbf{beta}.
However, even \bm{beta} could use a little fattening-up, in my opinion, and the \hm from the bm package. Can I make the beta's extra bold? My current solution is just to use "B" instead.
for comparison, here is the output of
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{bm}
\begin{document}
$\beta \mathbf{\beta} \bm{\beta} \hm{\beta} \bm{\beta\mkern-11mu\beta}$
\end{document}
\bmas you stated in your question or\mathbfas you showed in code and the image.\mathbfhas no effect on\betain the default setup. – David Carlisle Jun 28 '12 at 19:57\mathbfin my tests.\bmdefinitely works, but I would like to know if I could make it "double-bold". – David LeBauer Jun 28 '12 at 20:04\bm{\beta}even more bold. So I have revised the question to make the distinction. – David LeBauer Jun 28 '12 at 20:05\hminbm.stybut even without changing to commercial fonts just switching amongst the available font packages might do something you prefer, or there is always\bm{\beta\mkern-10mu\beta}but that is fairly horrible. – David Carlisle Jun 28 '12 at 20:14mkern-11muin my example, not so horrible - I like double line notation when writing by hand at least - but you are right, I wouldn't want to publish that – David LeBauer Jun 28 '12 at 20:27