Normal letters and standard symbols are typeset simply by using the
letters directly or using a command that denotes the wanted symbol.
So $\sum A_{i}$
will produce
Ai. The typeface chosen
will depend on the current 〈math version〉. You can switch
between 〈math versions〉 outside of math mode,7 thereby
changing the overall layout of the following formulas.
LATEX knows about two math versions called `normal' and `bold'. As
the name indicates, \mathversion{normal}
is the default. In
contrast, the bold version will produce bolder letters and symbols.
This might be suitable in certain situations like headings, but
recall that changing the version means changing the appearance (and
perhaps the meaning) of the whole formula. If you want to bolden
only some symbols or characters within one formula you should not
change the \mathversion
. Instead you should define a special
math alphabet for characters (see below) and/or use the command
\boldsymbol
which is provided by the document style option
amsbsy. For historical reasons LATEX maintains two
abbreviations to switch to its math versions: \boldmath
and
\unboldmath
.
Other versions could be provided in special style options. For example the `concrete' option mentioned before sets up a version called `euler' to typeset formulas in the same way as it was done in [4].