Hello Guenter, Thank you for your suggestion; that worked too!
On Thu 30 Aug 2012 02:49:08 PM EEST, Guenter Milde wrote: > 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 > -- Sincerely Yours, -Merhebi, Bob Thunderbird Signature
