[Tex/LaTex] Math notation and Fonts

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I'm creating a rather large document/thesis/book that will contain a lot of math. I'm having problems getting a consistent set of math fonts or notation for different types of variables. Specifically, I have scalar variables, vectors, matrices, and tensors that I would like to all look different.

I had sort of settled on the following:

  1. scalar – 'regular' italicized
  2. vector – same as scalar, but with an arrow (latex \vec)
  3. matrix – bold (preferably upright as well)
  4. tensor – preferably blackboard font, but also maybe the same as a matrix

That's all well and good, except my field uses many Greek letters, both lower and uppercase. In addition, after writing a long section with latex's \vec, it looks
ugly and crowded, particularly when combined with superscripts. Most documents I've seen fudge many of them together.

So any mathematicians/latexticians have opinions on getting a consistent notation for a large document? As a side note, I'm currently using kpfonts, and would like to keep that (or Palatino) for the main text.

Best Answer

isomath defines \vectorsym, \matrixsym and \tensorsym to typeset vectors, matrices and tensors in an ISO-conformant way. It also loads fixmath to provide correct typesetting for the greek alphabet.

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