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From: eric gisse on 22 Feb 2010 18:48
olympic-class self-control wrote:

> in physics & math, boldfaced type is used to indicate that a quantity
> is a Vector.
>
> But when handwriting (as on a classroom blackboard), the convention
> is to put a line over the letter, as bolding handwriting is
> difficult. But is it impossible? Can there be any way to handwrite
> in true-bolding?

Push harder with your pencil.

From: Mike Terry on 22 Feb 2010 21:53
"olympic-class self-control" <dances_with_barkadas(a)yahoo.com> wrote in
message
news:5d49b86e-ccb5-453c-acc4-f19f76f4901d(a)z1g2000prc.googlegroups.com...
> in physics & math, boldfaced type is used to indicate that a quantity
> is a Vector.
>
> But when handwriting (as on a classroom blackboard), the convention
> is to put a line over the letter, as bolding handwriting is
> difficult. But is it impossible? Can there be any way to handwrite
> in true-bolding?

When I was little, I remember receiving an ingenious little pen in my
Christmas stocking that could write in about half a dozen different
colours - it had multiple biro refils inside which could be selected by
clicking the appropriate "clicker thing on the end" for the colour you
wanted. (I'm sure there must be an obvious name for the clicker thing, but
it completely escapes me!)

At the time I never truly understood what these pens were supposed to be
used for, and they always seemed a bit gimmicky - why would anyone ever want
to write in green or pink for example? Thinking back now, I release they
were "mathematicians pens" designed to distinguish not only vectors/scalers,
but also matrices, along with variables vs. constants, complex numbers vs.
reals etc..

I haven't seen one for about 40 years, but I'm sure someone must still make
them given the global potential of the budding mathematician market.

Regards,
Mike.



From: rancid moth on 22 Feb 2010 22:37
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:00:33 -0800, olympic-class self-control wrote:

> in physics & math, boldfaced type is used to indicate that a quantity
> is a Vector.
>
> But when handwriting (as on a classroom blackboard), the convention
> is to put a line over the letter, as bolding handwriting is
> difficult. But is it impossible? Can there be any way to handwrite
> in true-bolding?

shrink the blackboard so the typeface looks bigger.

From: jmfbahciv on 23 Feb 2010 07:42
rancid moth wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:00:33 -0800, olympic-class self-control wrote:
>
>> in physics & math, boldfaced type is used to indicate that a quantity
>> is a Vector.
>>
>> But when handwriting (as on a classroom blackboard), the convention
>> is to put a line over the letter, as bolding handwriting is
>> difficult. But is it impossible? Can there be any way to handwrite
>> in true-bolding?
>
> shrink the blackboard so the typeface looks bigger.
>

Write the character twice, slightly shifted. I'd prefer the
arrow over the character because it's clear the character
was intended to be a vector.

/BAH
From: Mahipal7638 on 24 Feb 2010 10:49
On Feb 22, 4:00 am, olympic-class self-control
<dances_with_barka...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> in physics & math, boldfaced type is used to indicate that a quantity
> is a Vector.
>
>    But when handwriting (as on a classroom blackboard), the convention
> is to put a line over the letter, as bolding handwriting is
> difficult.  But is it impossible?  Can there be any way to handwrite
> in true-bolding?

Are you suggesting your pen is not thick enough to be bold?

You know, I could've mistyped a word in above sentence but I
refrained.

You've gotten all sorts of advice on how to handwrite. The reality is,
why bother? Learn TeX/LaTeX and let your Math symbols follow a well
defined and accepted standard, with or without either Metric System or
Linguistics complications.

We do all still handwrite. Especially if forced to teach. I recall an
experience, where a professor tossed a piece of chalk to the far side
of the classroom board to focus on some equation. It was funny. The
flying near lightspeed chalk left a mark, nowhere at all near where
the CFD professor hoped to hit. He's a CFD SW guy, not a Tennis
Player. You know what I mean...

There's another different professor, on his Physics chalkboard, for
that was the class. He went on and on and filled the board with
equations in all directions. Then at the end of the hour lecture, he
points out: "By the dot, I mean derivative-with-respect-to-time." I'm
sitting there aghast, nowhere has anyone used the dot otherwise?!
Perhaps I was still being indoctrinated.

Poetic Justice would've been if the CFD guy accurately threw his chalk
above the position variable r, instantly making it r_dot, and forcing
all of us to go home and redo his derivation with respect to time.
That would've been sweet.

Here's a sample of really useful -- OK I might be biased here --
handwriting from a certain Physicist Wheeler: http://mahipal7638.wordpress.com/

Since I, like most of you, if HumanInTheSenseYouPretendToBe4Google,
are next to your cellphones, you may like to read, to know, this:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/233916

Enjo(y)...
--
Mahipal
http://mahipal7638.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/meforce.pdf The non-
handwritten version.


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