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Re: vector notation

Hi,

On Jul 20, 2004, at 5:09 PM, Larry Smith wrote:

I always thought the vector arrow over the letter (or the squiggly
under
it) was employed in handwritten work precisely because it is hard to do
boldface by hand.

And I always thought that boldface or italic are used because the
vector arrow is not available in many text processors - not everybody
uses LaTeX, like they should :-)

\vec{a} produces an arrow.

I prefer the vector arrow in both printed and handwritten. Unit vector
have the hat instead.

- Gerd.