How to get BOLD ITALIC type
In LaTeX2e, you can get text both bold-face and italics at once simply
by doing
\textbf{This text is only bold but \emph{this} was also italics}
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Under LaTeX2.09, it's a little more difficult, since font properties
don't "stack".
\newfont{\boldit}{cmbxti10}
or
\newfont{\boldslant}{cmbxsl10}
(There is a small difference between the look of italicized and slanted text;
you may want to try samples of both to compare.)
These commands loads the specified font and defines the control sequence you
specify as the command to switch to this font. You can now use the font by
either prefacing the text you want to change with the \boldit or \boldslat
command and enclosing the whole thing in {}'s; thus:
{\boldit This text will be in bold italics}, but this text will
be in the normal font.
or you can surround the text by:
\begin{boldit}
Text here.
\end{boldit}
The number after the decimal tells you the size of the font. If you want the
same font scaled to be larger, you can try using the "scaled" command when you
load the font, like:
\newfont{\boldit}{cmbxti10 scaled \magstep 1}
cmbxti10 only comes in six sizes; the normal size and "scaled \magstep X",
where "X" is a number from 1 to 5, inclusive.
last modified: 10/26/99
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