Is there a quicker way of doing boldface in math mode instead of typing out \mathbf{}
each time? (It gets cumbersome when you denote simple vectors with boldface…)
[Tex/LaTex] Faster way of writing \mathbf
boldmath-mode
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Best Answer
There's a really cheesy way of saving keystrokes that is no longer than Todd's answer but just as comprehensive as Yiannis's:
Explanation: a control sequence whose name is a non-letter doesn't require either spaces or braces after it (unless of course you want it to act on multiple tokens, like plain
ab
; a macro such as my\ab
will work just fine, though).