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From: anita@brahms.udel.edu (Anita Marie Hoover)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Natural numbers set math symbol wanted.
Keywords: Natural number set, math symbol
Message-ID: <21469@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 17 May 91 12:19:16 GMT
References: <1942@svin02.info.win.tue.nl>
Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <1942@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> ttgr7@info.win.tue.nl writes:
=>Hello TeX users,
=>
=>I am looking for *one* specific math symbol,
=>which (somehow) I haven't been able to find yet.
=>It is the symbol for the natural number set ('N').
=>Here in Holland, we are used to writing it as follows:
=>
=>  _
=> | |     |
=> | |\    |
=> | | \   |
=> | |  \  |
=> | |   \ |
=> |_|    \| 
=>

I am sure it is part of AMS fonts, but I have not listed all
the font tables for those fonts.  Anyway you can create your
own,

\newcommand{\NN}{\mbox{\protect\makebox[.15em][l]{I}N}}

=>Is there an easy way to inspect all fonts to search it?
=>

You should be able to use a macro file called testfonts.tex to
be able to create a dvi file that has the font tables that you
specified.  I can't remember where I go that file.

=>Please mail directly to me or post your response to this group.
=>
=>Thanks.
=>
=>Ton Brouwer, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands.
=>(ttgr7@info.win.tue.nl)