General ⇒ How to make non-bold text in a bold context?

[Spectrum]

I would like to be able to make text non-boldfaced in a context where it would otherwise be bold, such as in headings in the "description" environment. I.e., I want a command like this:

\item[Here is a \unbold{non-bold} word:] And a description of it...

to look something like this:

* Here is a non-bold word: And a description of it...

Can you do that?

Thanks in advance.

[Spectrum]

I solved my problem. The command \textnormal does what I want.

[mojontp]

thanks for scharing the info!
i just "had" the same problem.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

\textnormal does more than just switching to non-bold text. It could change other attributes like sans-serif, italic or slanted. For instance KOMA classes use a sans serif font for the description list. Have a look at the effect of \textnormal:

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\documentclass{scrartcl}
\begin{document}
\begin{description}
\item[Here is a \textnormal{non-bold} word:] And a description of it...
\item[Another item:] and its description
\end{description}
\end{document}

Output:

textnormal.png (7.3 KiB) Viewed 77036 times

Sans-serif and serif font is mixed here.

The command switching from bold to medium typeface is \textmd:

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\documentclass{scrartcl}
\begin{document}
\begin{description}
\item[Here is a \textmd{non-bold} word:] And a description of it...
\item[Another item:] and its description
\end{description}
\end{document}

Output:

textmd.png (7.34 KiB) Viewed 77036 times

Stefan