On 2012-08-28, Ernesto Posse wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Merhebi, Bob <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello there,
>> I am writing this technical book; so far I've been using the overhead
>> vectors to represent vectors, but now I changed my mind & want to
>> represent vectors in bold.
>> Is it possible to make the change for all previous representations in
>> one go?
> You can try writing the following in the preamble:
> \renewcommand{\vec}[1]{\ensuremath{\mathbf{#1}}}
Mind, that this produces an *upright* bold symbol, while most style gides
in science and engineering expect *italic bold* for vector and Matrix
symbols. This can be achieved with the "isomath" package
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/isomath (See
http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/isomath/isomath.html for
examples and details.)
This is LaTeX preamble code for isomath with default settings:
\usepackage{isomath}
\renewcommand{\vec}{\vectorsym}
Günter
