diff --git a/src/document-templates/root-lncs.tex b/src/document-templates/root-lncs.tex
index 83258d5..9167d5c 100644
--- a/src/document-templates/root-lncs.tex
+++ b/src/document-templates/root-lncs.tex
@@ -68,17 +68,6 @@
 \renewcommand{\floatpagefraction}{0.7}        % require fuller float pages
 \renewcommand{\dblfloatpagefraction}{0.7}     % require fuller float pages
 
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-%%% Overrides the (rightfully issued) warning by Koma Script that \rm
-%%% etc. should not be used (they are deprecated since more than a
-%%% decade)
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\rm}{\normalfont\rmfamily}{\mathrm}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\sf}{\normalfont\sffamily}{\mathsf}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\tt}{\normalfont\ttfamily}{\mathtt}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\bf}{\normalfont\bfseries}{\mathbf}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\it}{\normalfont\itshape}{\mathit}
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-
 \begin{document}
 \selectlanguage{USenglish}%
 \renewcommand{\bibname}{References}%
diff --git a/src/document-templates/root-scrartcl.tex b/src/document-templates/root-scrartcl.tex
index ce6d2ee..dc8e766 100644
--- a/src/document-templates/root-scrartcl.tex
+++ b/src/document-templates/root-scrartcl.tex
@@ -57,16 +57,7 @@
 \allowdisplaybreaks[4]
 \urlstyle{rm}
 \isabellestyle{it}
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-%%% Overrides the (rightfully issued) warning by Koma Script that \rm
-%%% etc. should not be used (they are deprecated since more than a
-%%% decade)
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\rm}{\normalfont\rmfamily}{\mathrm}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\sf}{\normalfont\sffamily}{\mathsf}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\tt}{\normalfont\ttfamily}{\mathtt}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\bf}{\normalfont\bfseries}{\mathbf}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\it}{\normalfont\itshape}{\mathit}
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
 \newenvironment{frontmatter}{}{}
 
 \begin{document}
diff --git a/src/document-templates/root-scrreprt-modern.tex b/src/document-templates/root-scrreprt-modern.tex
index ef7e6e0..c02d5f7 100644
--- a/src/document-templates/root-scrreprt-modern.tex
+++ b/src/document-templates/root-scrreprt-modern.tex
@@ -78,16 +78,7 @@
 \allowdisplaybreaks[4]
 \urlstyle{sf}
 \isabellestyle{it}
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-%%% Overrides the (rightfully issued) warning by Koma Script that \rm
-%%% etc. should not be used (they are deprecated since more than a
-%%% decade)
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\rm}{\normalfont\rmfamily}{\mathrm}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\sf}{\normalfont\sffamily}{\mathsf}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\tt}{\normalfont\ttfamily}{\mathtt}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\bf}{\normalfont\bfseries}{\mathbf}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\it}{\normalfont\itshape}{\mathit}
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
 \newenvironment{frontmatter}{}{}
 
 \begin{document}
diff --git a/src/document-templates/root-scrreprt.tex b/src/document-templates/root-scrreprt.tex
index 65b2c29..822d5d2 100644
--- a/src/document-templates/root-scrreprt.tex
+++ b/src/document-templates/root-scrreprt.tex
@@ -57,16 +57,7 @@
 \allowdisplaybreaks[4]
 \urlstyle{rm}
 \isabellestyle{it}
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-%%% Overrides the (rightfully issued) warning by Koma Script that \rm
-%%% etc. should not be used (they are deprecated since more than a
-%%% decade)
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\rm}{\normalfont\rmfamily}{\mathrm}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\sf}{\normalfont\sffamily}{\mathsf}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\tt}{\normalfont\ttfamily}{\mathtt}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\bf}{\normalfont\bfseries}{\mathbf}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\it}{\normalfont\itshape}{\mathit}
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
 \newenvironment{frontmatter}{}{}
 
 \begin{document}
diff --git a/src/document-templates/root-svjour3-UNSUPPORTED.tex b/src/document-templates/root-svjour3-UNSUPPORTED.tex
index 25ed0fa..238703a 100644
--- a/src/document-templates/root-svjour3-UNSUPPORTED.tex
+++ b/src/document-templates/root-svjour3-UNSUPPORTED.tex
@@ -61,17 +61,6 @@
 \usepackage[caption]{subfig}
 \usepackage[size=footnotesize]{caption}
 
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-%%% Overrides the (rightfully issued) warning by Koma Script that \rm
-%%% etc. should not be used (they are deprecated since more than a
-%%% decade)
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\rm}{\normalfont\rmfamily}{\mathrm}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\sf}{\normalfont\sffamily}{\mathsf}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\tt}{\normalfont\ttfamily}{\mathtt}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\bf}{\normalfont\bfseries}{\mathbf}
-  \DeclareOldFontCommand{\it}{\normalfont\itshape}{\mathit}
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-
 \begin{document}
 \selectlanguage{USenglish}%
 \renewcommand{\bibname}{References}%