retorquere/bibtex-parser

Order of \em and \bf matters

retorquere opened this issue · 3 comments

retorquere commented

@njbart, with these two snippets:

{aa\bf bb\em cc}

{aa\em bb\bf cc}

I had expected to final cc in both cases to be slanted and bold, but in the 2nd case, they're just bold. Do you know what rule could be underlying here?

njbart commented

I can reproduce this, but I have no idea why exactly. It seems you shouldn’t use \bf or \em anyway: see, e.g., http://www.texfaq.org/FAQ-2letterfontcmd and https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41681/correct-way-to-bold-italicize-text.