I would like to implement the suggestions in the TUGboat 30:3, 2009 about the upright/italic and bold/normal in scalars, vectors and tensors. All this is about math.
I use this font:
\usepackage[charter]{mathdesign}
For vectors, I always used \vec
, so I just redefined it like so:
\renewcommand{\vec}[1]{\boldsymbol{#1}}
Now they are bold and italic, just like I want them. Is that even the correct way to do this?
How can I get characters in bold, italic and sans-serif?
I almost got it with this, they are just upright and not italic:
\newcommand{\tens}[1]{\boldsymbol{\mathsf{#1}}}
Best Answer
The cleanest way is to define a new math alphabet:
and then
If you want italic bold sans serif, just change the first declaration into
but keep in mind that the OT1 encoded Computer Modern Sans fonts don't have slanted bold face, so also
or
is required.
You should also consider using
\bm
of thebm
package instead of\boldsymbol
, so that\bm{\mathsf{T}}
would be equivalent to the\mathbfsf{T}
with the first declaration. However there is no predefined sans serif italic math alphabet. So, if you need also sans serif italic, a more economic setting would be