Poor Man’s Bold \pmb

When to use Poor Man’s Bold

Simulates bold symbols by overprinting. In source, start from the exact \pmb command instead of imitating the rendered glyph with Unicode characters or manual spacing. This keeps the expression editable and gives the renderer enough structure to apply mathematical spacing correctly.

Syntax

\pmb

The documented syntax belongs to amsmath. Keep every required argument, brace pair, and environment boundary intact when moving the command between an editor, Markdown processor, notebook, or publishing system.

Example

\pmb{\nabla}

Rendered output

heavy nabla

Copy and compatibility checks

• Copy \pmb exactly; changing its case or removing a leading backslash can turn it into plain text.
• Confirm that the destination loads amsmath before relying on this command.
• Render the example once, then inspect grouping, limits, scripts, and spacing before publishing.