From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2675 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marc van Dongen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: math set Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:58:50 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20000912165850.E3080@cs.ucc.ie> References: <3.0.6.32.20000912143752.00899d70@pop.wxs.nl> <004101c01ccf$3f101340$66470e97@nuovo> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393449 10842 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:17:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:17:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt Original-To: "Giuseppe Bilotta (Oblomov)" In-Reply-To: <004101c01ccf$3f101340$66470e97@nuovo>; from oblomov@freemail.it on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 05:36:29PM +0200 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2675 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2675 Giuseppe Bilotta (Oblomov) (oblomov@freemail.it) wrote: : They are called BlackBoard symbols; the AMS font set has them (don't : remember the name). In the ``Not so Short Introduction to LaTeX2E'' on page 48 it is stated that you can get them using the \mathbb command using amsfonts or amssymb. : > In math schoolbooks N Z R and alike are used to denote sets (natural : > numbers and so). Does anyone know where and in what fonts these symbols : are : > and how they are called in english? I don't know if there's a standard name fo them. Personally I use $\Nset$ $\Zset$, $\Qset$, $\Rset$ and $\Cset$. Perhaps $\naturalnumbers$, $\integers$, $\rationalnumbers$, $\realnumbers$ and $\complexnumbers$ is a bit neater. Regards, Marc van Dongen