{blackboard} is about the particular "double-stroke" font used, for example, to denote the sets of natural, rational, and real numbers in mathematics
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Blackboard bold variants for Greek letters
It is common (or it used to be) to use a blackboard-bold variant of \mu to denote roots of unity in some mathematical papers. However, despite searching (several times, periodically over several ...
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LaTeX font for 'old-fashioned' script characters
Browsing through a copy of Counterexamples in Analysis (Gelbaum & Olmsted), I'm quite enjoying the typeface used for 'script' letters (see links to examples below); visually it's somewhere ...
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Adobe Reader does not display dsfont symbols in XeLaTeX document
When I compile the following simple document with XeLaTeX:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{dsfont}
\begin{document}
$\mathds N \subset \mathds Z \subset \mathds Q \subset \mathds R \subset ...
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\mathbbm{1} not working well with XeLaTeX/mathspec
it seems that \mathbbm{1} doesn't display with double lines when one changes to a different font using mathspec in XeLaTeX. For example, the MWE below uses Palatino, but I couldn't get it to work with ...
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Different types of Blackboard Bold in the same document
I am using mtpro2 package and it has 7 (!) different options for the Blackboard Bold (BB) to choose from. However only 2 of them provide BB version of Greek letters. And in both cases the result is ...
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Is it possible to manually alias the bbm blackboard fonts? [duplicate]
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Get high resolution for bitmap fonts under pdflatex?
I am using the command \mathbbm from the bbm package and I have realized that this fonts are pixelated when I ...
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Why can't I use 𝔽?
I can't figure out why LaTeX won't let me use the 𝔽 symbol (U+1D53D, mathematical double-stuck capital F). When I try, I get the error Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:𝔽 not set up for use ...
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traditional German sans-serif (and serif) blackboard-bold symbols
What I have always been looking for in LaTeX were traditional German sans-serif blackboard-bold letters, mainly for: N (natural numbers), Z (integers), Q (rational numbers), R (reals), C (complex ...
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Is there an easy way to use only mathpazo's blackboard-bold facilities (without it using Palatino)?
The mathpazo package sets Palatino as the document's main font. However I am only interested in its blackboard bold symbols. Is there an easy way for me to only use Mathpazo's bb symbols?
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Double stroke fonts with unicode-math like dsfont
It is tempting to switch to unicode-math. But there is (at least) one point that I still don't like. That are the double stroke characters. They look simply terrible in XITS Math. Just compare:
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How to get the AMS mathbb font while using Palatino elsewhere
I'm a Latex user. I've been using Palatino for typesetting a piece mathematical text:
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\usepackage[scaled=.95]{helvet}
\usepackage{courier}
The results are good, however I ...
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How can you change \mathbb characters to the old version?
If you look at older documents the \mathbb characters appear different. For example they are sans serif. I don't know how I can use that set of characters instead of the current default.
If you are ...
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Blackboard bold characters
The blackboard bold font in the AMSFonts package only has capital letters. I sometimes wish to use a blackboard bold "1", for which I can use \usepackage{bbold}. But this changes the entire ...
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\mathbb{0} and \mathbb{1} with mathdesign/Utopia?
In a related question, I asked about getting a blackboard bold 0 in addition to a 1. But now I'd like to do it along with \usepackage[utopia]{mathdesign}. If I try to \usepackage{bbold}, I get the ...
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Free, non-upright, blackboard, Type1 font
Is there a free package to get non-upright (i.e. italic or slanted) blackboard symbols in a Type1 font?
It's easy to get three of the four properties (i.e. blackboard italic font, ...
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Is it possible to get a blackboard-bold 0?
I've found that \mathbb{1} works when using mathpazo:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\begin{document}
$\mathbb{1}$
\end{document}
But \mathbb{0} doesn't work (doesn't display ...
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics Style & Font [duplicate]
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How do I find out what fonts are used in a document/picture?
So if you look at CJM (it needs subscription online so I can't link to examples) it has a very distinct ...
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Blackboard bold characters of the txmia font
I included the blackboard bold characters adding the following lines to my preamble. (Inspired by txfonts.sty)
\let\mathbb\relax
\DeclareSymbolFont{lettersA}{U}{txmia}{m}{it}
...
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Creating a font with blackboard characters for as many engines as possible?
For some texts that I am typesetting, I would like to have more blackboard letters than are usually available with the AMS fonts (or with fourierbb etc.)
In particular, I felt the need to denote the ...
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the unthinkable: use of Metafont for greek minion letters in black board style
would it be possible to create our own greek letters in black board style from the Minion family using Metafont? It is just a matter of adding a vertical bar somewhere...
Thanks
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How do I make a blackboard 1? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Blackboard bold characters
I want to make a blackboard "1" character to show an indicator variable, but $\mathbb{1}$ doesn't work. How do I do it?
