TITLE: How to do \mathbf in handwriting?
QUESTION [11 upvotes]: I have a bunch of vectors and matrices that are written using \mathbf, eg $\mathbf{w}$ and $\mathbf{W}$.  What are standard ways of writing these in hand-writing?
I know this is not exactly a maths question, but I'm not sure where else to ask it really?

REPLY [5 votes]: Why not use a tilde & a harpoon over the letter to distinguish between a matrix & a vector respectively? In control systems, capital letters are used to denote the Laplace Transform of a time-domain variable & since multivariable systems are not uncommon this could distinguish that.