From the attached figure, you can see the star on the left-hand side is higher than the star on the right-hand side. Is it possible to lower the star on the left to the same height as the right-hand side?
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\[
\hat{\boldsymbol{\beta}}^{*} = \hat{\beta}^{*}
\]
\end{document}
Best Answer
It is better to use the
bm
package for bold math italics, as it gets the positioning of accents and the spacing for sub- and superscripts right.The
bm
package will also redefine\boldsymbol
, so you don't have to replace all\boldsymbol
with\bm
throughout the document. Therefore, make sure to loadbm
afteramsbsy
, which is loaded byamsmath
. Still, I find it highly appealing to use\bm
as it has only two letters as opposed to the ten letters of\boldsymbol
.