Bold and italic in subsection

Question

In the following documentclass

\documentclass[prb,twocolumn,showpacs]{revtex4}

how to have italic and bold in a subsection title? The italic command removes the boldness when inside a subsection, so I tried the following :

\subsection{Short-range {\bf {\it vs}} long-range scattering}

It does not work. Any idea how to solve this? Maybe the documentclass has nothing to do with it, I did not check it.

For the record, the Documentation on Obsolete commands and packages warns against continuing to use "\it" and "\bf". — frabjous, Jan 18 '11 at 16:49

score 18 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

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This has nothing to do with the documentclass, but with font selection. \it selects non-bold italics, and \bf selects non-italic bold. You should use

\textbf{\textit{vs}}

instead. See also this question.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:34

Community

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answered Jan 18 '11 at 14:09

Hendrik Vogt

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+1 for the link to Caramdir's answer. I've deleted my own answer. – lockstep Jan 18 '11 at 14:17

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '11 at 14:08

2

Try doing \textit{\textbf{vs}} instead. That should work.

answered Jan 18 '11 at 14:08

Seamus

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 06 '13 at 07:04

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Using \secit{vs} would solve the problem. This is how I worked it out for my subsection when I needed both bold and italic.

edited Jan 06 '13 at 07:04

doncherry

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answered Jan 06 '13 at 06:42

user24021

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Welcome to TeX.sx! A tip: You can use backticks ``` to mark your inline code as I did in my edit. – doncherry Jan 06 '13 at 07:04
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How is \secit defined? revtex4 does not include it. – Werner Jan 06 '13 at 07:04

Bold and italic in subsection

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