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From: rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Juimong Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: METAFONT: Open caps?  Cursive caps?
Message-ID: <4469@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 16 Nov 88 22:50:30 GMT
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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I'm wondering if anyone has developed an ``open capital letters' font
or a ``cursive capital letters' font for TeX.  I've started an
``open capitals'' font, but I'm certain I'm reinventing the wheel.
Does anyone have MF code for either of these two fonts?

By ``open capital letters'':  Proof by example:  You know how on
the blackboard the symbol for the real numbers is a capital R with
two vertical strokes on the left?  And the symbol for complex
numbers is a C with a little vertical bar on the left?  The same
for the rationals (Q) and the integers (Z) and the natural numbers (N)
and the positive integers (P)...  Well, that's what I mean by
"open capital letters".  They're so simple, somebody must've done it
by now...  (My current method is to print an I and an R very close
together so that the stem of the I looks like a second vertical bar.
Needless to say, it looks ugly.)

By ``cursive capital letters'' I don't mean the calligraphic fonts.
The cursive font would use a much finer pen and be a little more
flowery.  For example, the symbol for the power set of X is P(X)
where P is a cursive P.  The symbol for the set of continuous functions
from X to Y is C(X,Y) where C is a cursive C.  You get the idea.

Thanks for listening.
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