How do I use bold, italics and typewriter fonts in LaTeX?
If you want to put a small piece of text in a specific type style, you can do
it as follows:
{\em This text will be in italics} {\bf This text will be bold!} {\tt This will be in a "typewriter font"}
If you want to put larger amounts of text into these type styles, you can use
\begin and \end commands; i.e.:
\begin{em} All this text will be italicized \end{em}
If you want to be able to "stack" type styles (bold and italic, etc), then you need to use slightly different commands:
{\bffamily This is in bold {\em This is italic bold}}
OR
\textbf{This text is only bold but \emph{this} was also italics}
Not all combinations of styles will have a font associated with them.
More information is available in the document LaTeX on Athena