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carolmakow
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July 29, 2009
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bolding Greek letters in Framemaker equations

  • July 29, 2009
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Is there a way to bold Greek letters within equations in Frame?  Thanks.

Carol

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    Arnis Gubins
    Arnis Gubins
    Inspiring
    July 30, 2009

    You need to get an appropriate typeface that has a bold version,. For example: http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/hvmath/hvmain.htm

    MichaelKazlow
    MichaelKazlow
    Legend
    July 30, 2009

    Bold is (over) used in Mathematics. It appears everywhere even with Greek letters. The lack of bold Greek was due to the lack of bold font in the Symbol font. Many fonts are available that provide bold Greek letters. They are available in various different mathematical fonts as well as Greek fonts. In fact, with the advent of Unicode there are more fonts that provide bold Greek letters. Of course you need a modern version of Frame to access the Greek Alphabet available in some Unicode fonts.

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    carolmakowAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    July 31, 2009

    Thanks - I do have the latest version and the character map, but the greek letters I'm finding in bold don't copy into equation setups.? I'm just needing the bold for earmarking purposes and not to be part of the final document.?

    Carol

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    Bold is (over) used in Mathematics. It appears everywhere even with Greek

    letters. The lack of bold Greek was due to the bold font in the Symbol font.

    Many fonts are available that provide bold Greek letters. They are available in

    various different mathematical fonts as well as Greek fonts. In fact, with the

    advent of Unicode there are more fonts that provide bold Greek letters. Of

    course you need a modern version of Frame to access the Greek Alphabet available

    in some Unicode fonts.

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    Anonymous
    July 29, 2009

    I don't believe there is a way to do this. If I remember correctly from a discussion about this a couple of years ago on the forum, those who do scientific typesetting agreed that formatting equations with bold was not considered mathematically nor typographically correct.

    With luck one of the math / layout whizzes hereabouts will be around to confirm / deny.

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