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From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
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Subject: Re: AmSTeX fonts: old vs. new
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>Regarding the new AMS fonts: Does anyone know why the AMS did not
>retain (and support) the ``old'' blackboard capitals in the font msym?
>I prefer them to those recently introduced in the font msbm.

That is a reason not to throw msym out.  Some people prefer the old
Bbb characters.

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