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In my opinion \bm looks nasty. The characters appear to be blurred. When you zoom in you can see the method of making the letters thicker. The same letter is printed several times with slight shift to the right. Looks poor in my eyes. In contrast, \boldsymbol seems to increase linewidth by itself ...

You didn't get me right. ;) I wasn't thinking of a modification of the packages. I was rather thinking that Texmaker maybe replaces "\boldsymbol{bla}" by "\rightcommand{bla}" in the source code because it knows that \boldsymbol won't work for latin letters.

Anyways, I found the problem. Indeed I ...

Nope. No other changes. I updated MikTex and all packages afterwards, but it didn't change anything. I assume that the older version of Texmaker has changed \boldsymbol to something else when compiling in order to create bold symbols.

Is there another way to create italic bold latin letters with ...

Hi guys,
I used to have an old version of Texmaker (~2 years old).

For writing vectors in the math environment I used \boldsymbol for making them bold. This worked for any kind of symbol including latin and greek letters with indices and hats or overlines.

However, since I updated Texmaker to the ...