bolding Greek letters in Framemaker equations

[carolmakow]

Is there a way to bold Greek letters within equations in Frame?  Thanks.

Carol

[AxialInfo]

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.

[Arnis Gubins]

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

[MichaelKazlow]

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.

Message was edited by: Michael Kazlow

[carolmakow]

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.

[Arnis Gubins]

MAKE BACK-UP COPIES FIRST!

In your maker.ini file edit the following line in the [Fonts] section:

MathFamily=Symbol

to point to the font family that you want to use.

Then in the \fminit folder make a copy of the mathchar.cfg file and edit the entries to point to the bold symbols, e.g.

  < alpha     61 Symbol Regular>

to <alpha  61 myMathFont Bold>

etc.