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From: Hraban <angerweit@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: math set
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:39:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <39BE7847.CD8516A4@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000912143752.00899d70@pop.wxs.nl>

Hans Hagen wrote:
> 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?

They're called "blackboard bold".

LaTeX uses them with the following packages:
- amsfonts (A--Z, k)
- mathbbol (complete alphabet with greek, uses bbold fonts)

The german LaTeX FAQ tells, there'd be the fonts:
- bbold (sans, complete, by Alain Jeffrey)
- doublestroke (sans and serif, caps and "1, k, h", by Olaf Kummer)
- bbm (several variants, by Gilles F. Robert)

I remember an other free(?) blackboard font at http://www.yandy.com

I found an reference to an article by Gerd Neugebauer in "Die TeXnische
Komödie" 4/1996, 1/1997 about several possibilities.
And there should be a file "blackboard.ps" at CTAN:doc/blackboard

-- 
Grütze für alle!

Hraban.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-09-12 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-09-12 12:37 Hans Hagen
2000-09-12 13:17 ` s. knypstra
2000-09-12 14:01 ` Peter Kessels
2000-09-12 14:14   ` math set (correction) Peter Kessels
2000-09-12 14:43 ` math set Tobias Burnus
2000-09-12 23:29   ` HoHo
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009130125290.17281-100000@monoceros.physics .muni.cz>
2000-09-13  7:16     ` Hans Hagen
2000-09-12 15:36 ` Giuseppe Bilotta (Oblomov)
2000-09-12 15:58   ` Marc van Dongen
2000-09-12 18:39 ` Hraban [this message]
2000-09-12 23:23 ` HoHo

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