Question

Can bold characters be embedded within maths text, for use with vectors and matrices etc?

Answer 1

Yes.

Explanation:

The idea here is that you can get the bold text within math texts by using two functions, mathbf() or bb().

For example, you can write things like

• without hashtags

mathbf(ax^2 + bx + c = 0)

• with hashtags

`mathbf(ax^2 + bx + c = 0)`

Alternatively, you can have

• without hashtags

bb(ax^2 + bx + c = 0)

• with hashtags

`bb(ax^2 + bx + c = 0)`

So you can use these functions to add bold text to your math formatting.

• without hashtags

{: (bb(0), bb(0), bb(0), bb(0)),(1, 1, 1, 1), (color(red)(2), color(red)(2), color(red)(2), color(red)(2)), (3, 3, 3, 3), (4, 4, 4, 4) :}

• with hashtags

`{: (bb(0), bb(0), bb(0), bb(0)),(1, 1, 1, 1), (color(red)(2), color(red)(2), color(red)(2), color(red)(2)), (3, 3, 3, 3), (4, 4, 4, 4) :}`