On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Herbert Schulz <he...@wideopenwest.com> wrote: > > On Oct 30, 2012, at 1:21 AM, Michaël Cadilhac <mich...@cadilhac.name> wrote: > >> Hi there folks, >> >> I have gotten used to write vectors in my documents as $\vec{v}$. >> $\vec$, basically, is a mathbf. Naturally, if I have vectors v_1, >> v_2, v_3, I'd like to write \vec{v_1}, \vec{v_2}, \vec{v_3}. But >> here, I want to mathbf only the `v`. Thus I used this ugly hack, >> contributed by fine people at StackExchange, which (1) saves the font >> in which a mathbf text would be displayed and (2) changes to mathbf >> ONLY the font of the current style: >> >> \def\vec#1{% >> %% Gather all the fonts -- text, script, script script --. >> \setbox0\hbox{$\mathbf{\xdef\vec@ts{\the\textfont\fam}% >> \xdef\vec@ss{\the\scriptfont\fam}% >> \xdef\vec@sss{\the\scriptscriptfont\fam}}$}% >> \def\vec@font##1##2{##1 0=##2 ##1 1=##2}% >> %% Return in the right style, apply the bf font ONLY for the local style. >> \mathchoice{\hbox{$\displaystyle\vec@font{\textfont}{\vec@ts} #1$}}% >> {\hbox{$\textstyle\vec@font{\textfont}{\vec@ts} #1$}}% >> {\hbox{$\scriptstyle\vec@font{\scriptfont}{\vec@ss} #1$}}% >> {\hbox{$\scriptscriptstyle\vec@font{\scriptscriptfont}{\vec@sss} >> #1$}}}% >> >> I do admit I have only the slightest clue of how this precisely works; >> especially, I'm not sure why I added \vec@font to set so many font >> families. However, it did work, and I went with it. >> >> Then I switched to XeTeX --- I wanted to use the XITS fonts. And as >> any ugly hack, mine wasn't supposed to be supported any longer; can't >> blame anyone but myself here. >> >> Thus I'm searching for some help to find a clean^H^H^H^H^Hworking >> solution for this problem. Any help? >> >> Thanks a lot in advance! >> >> M. > > > Howdy, > > \vec{v}_1 ?
Herb, Thanks, but of course, I'd like to avoid going through hundreds of pages (ok, a script would be easy to write, but still...). Also, I'd like to keep the semantics "\vec{T} is for a vector T", whether T=v or T=v_1. Thanks! M. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex