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[Friedrich Laher <address@hidden>]

Am 05.09.2011 18:05, schrieb Joris van der Hoeven:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 08:13:18AM -0400, Youjun Hu wrote:
> > As is known, we can use latex command \mathbf{} to generate a bold
> > character to denote a vector.
> > However, using \mathbf{} command in Texmacs generates an bold but
> > italic character, similar to the result of \boldsymbol{} .
> Yes, the default LaTeX behaviour is kind of confusing (as often
> with LaTeX), since the shape changes when switching to bold.
>
> I implemented some special math font variants in the past,
> but removed them, because they were also unsatisfactory from
> various other points of view.
>
> I just commited some changes which restores this previous behaviour
> in an improved way: you may simply select Font ->  Shape ->  Upright
> in order to do what you want.
>
> However, the really correct way to deal with this kind of things
> is to interpret bold upright symbols as special symbols,
> and not as standard symbols in a fancy font. This requires to
> add several Unicode characters to TeXmacs, which is somewhat
> a hassle for me right now, but on the todo list.
>
> Best, --Joris
I thought the intention of TexMacs is a "semantic markup" - here as 
"vektor" - and
then there may be some options for the graphical representation.