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Make math bold inside term element #553

Closed rbeezer closed 2 years ago

rbeezer commented 7 years ago

We could recognize m with a parent (or ancestor?) term and wrap with \mathbf{}. Euclidean n-space would be a good example.

Alex-Jordan commented 7 years ago

Every time I've used bold math, people object. It's not the bold they object to, just the change to upright instead of math-slanted. n-space might not be as objectionable as other things though.

rbeezer commented 7 years ago

Thanks, Alex. I hadn't really investigated. This package implements \bm which would appear to preserve the italics or slant.

http://www.ctan.org/pkg/bm

But of course, this will not be available in MathJax most likely.

Rob

On 04/06/2017 09:01 PM, Alex Jordan wrote:

Every time I've used bold math, people object. It's not the bold they object to, just the change to upright instead of math-slanted. n-space might not be as objectionable as other things though.

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davidfarmer commented 7 years ago

There are many places where authors put math inside the term, when they shouldn't.

For example:
"If V is a vector space then W is a subspace of V if...". That is better than including the V in the term. (Maybe the "of" should not be in the term? That is another topic for discussion. I suggest that stealth knowls provide a good context for making such decisions.)

A completely separate question is whether math amidst boldness should also be bold. It does not follow from first principles that it should. (And as Alex already pointed out, it is bad if the math bolding is done imperfectly.)

rbeezer commented 7 years ago

Math in titles (which get bolded, mostly) has come up before. I know we load an "autobold.js" extension for MathJax.

Clearly a discussion for the list (not now!). I just dropped a marker here, since I thought "Euclidean n-space" as a bolded term looked weird to my eye. No plans to actually do anything right now.

Thanks for the comments.

Rob

On 04/07/2017 04:42 AM, davidfarmer wrote:

There are many places where authors put math inside the term, when they shouldn't.

For example: "If V is a vector space then W is a subspace of V if...". That is better than including the V in the term. (Maybe the "of" should not be in the term? That is another topic for discussion. I suggest that stealth knowls provide a good context for making such decisions.)

A completely separate question is whether math amidst boldness should also be bold. It does not follow from first principles that it should. (And as Alex already pointed out, it is bad if the math bolding is done imperfectly.)

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davidfarmer commented 2 years ago

We implemented bold in math, so should be okay now.