Bold equation formatting in table headers

[tarment]

I’m having an issue where I would like to use math formatting in a header, but have it show up as bold. When I try $ bold(n) $, it causes the math to be assigned a new equation number. When I try $bold(n)$, it doesn’t make it bold. When I use math.bold(“n”), it works, but I can’t seem to get it to work with subscripts. For example math.bold(“n_(“old”)”) causes a compilation error due to an unexpected comma.

Does Typst have a fundamental issue with inserting bold math objects into a table header, or am I just not getting the syntax correct?

[gezepi]

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As for the question itself. The following code produces the screenshot below.

#table(
  columns: 3,

  table.header($n_("old")$, strong($n_("old")$), math.bold($n_("old")$)),
  [A], [B], [C]
  
)

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