non-boldface

See also: nonboldface

English

Alternative forms

• nonboldface

Etymology

From non- +‎ boldface.

Adjective

non-boldface (not comparable)

1. Not boldface.
   • 1997 December 7, Wisconsin State Journal‎^[1]:

     We prefer your resume on light colored paper, using standard non-italic, non-boldface type.

   • 2004, Robert M. Gray, Lee D. Davisson, An Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing, Cambridge University Press, page 113:

     We will often denote a random vector in boldface as X. […] It is also common to use an ordinary non-boldface X and let context indicate whether X has dimension 1 or not. […] As we progress, however, the non-boldface notation will be used with increasing frequency to match current style in the literature.

   • 2009, Yulia Dubov, Michael Kaminski, “The Power of Non-deterministic Reassignment in Infinite-Alphabet Pushdown Automata”, in Orna Grumberg, Michael Kaminski, Shmuel Katz, Shuly Wintner, editors, Languages: From Formal to Natural: Essays Dedicated to Nissim Francez on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Sublibrary: SL 2 – Programming and Software Engineering), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, page 109:

     Symbols which occur in a word denoted by a boldface letter are always denoted by the same non-boldface letter with some subscript. That is, symbols which occur in σ are denoted by σ_i, symbols which occur in w are denoted by w_i, symbols which occur in X are denoted by X_i, etc.

Synonyms

• non-boldfaced