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Feb 22, 2024 at 9:55 comment added Jolia @user2154420 I've defined operators in bold and when I type them in proofs they're not italicized but in theorem environment they are, any idea on how to never have them in italic?
May 19, 2023 at 7:04 comment added Dror \ DeclareMathOperator is defined in amsopn which is loaded by default when including amsmath.
May 17, 2023 at 23:12 comment added Lucas is this in the amsmath package?
Jun 22, 2021 at 22:55 answer added Gautam Sreekumar timeline score: 2
Apr 5, 2018 at 16:06 comment added user2154420 Consider \newcommand{\im}{\text{im}} with \DeclareMathOperator{\im}{im}. Now try and use these commands in the standard theorem environment. In the former "im" will be italicized, but in the latter "im" won't be.
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Apr 12, 2015 at 21:18 answer added Tyson Williams timeline score: 11
Sep 4, 2012 at 21:01 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackTeX/status/243091320841859072
Aug 18, 2012 at 19:33 vote accept Dror
Aug 17, 2012 at 19:04 answer added Dox timeline score: 45
Aug 17, 2012 at 9:39 answer added Andrew Swann timeline score: 250
Aug 17, 2012 at 9:24 comment added Andrew Stacey Sort of related: tex.stackexchange.com/q/655/86 I'd go for the "horses for courses" argument: \DeclareMathOperator says what it's going to do and does it, so makes it easier for you to remember 6months later what it was meant for. Also, if you want a consistent look you're going to effectively reimplement \DeclareMathOperator (this \newcommand should produce the same effect as that \newcommand but not the other \newcommand so we'd better have a "helper" macro for this and that but not the other) so why not take advantage of the work others have already done?
Aug 17, 2012 at 9:09 comment added egreg \DeclareMathOperator is a very special case of \newcommand, so the question as it stands is too generic to receive an answer.
Aug 17, 2012 at 8:54 comment added Marco Daniel Run texdoc amsmath and see page 13f.
Aug 17, 2012 at 6:09 history asked Dror CC BY-SA 3.0