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From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: METAFONT: Open caps?  Cursive caps?
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Date: 17 Nov 88 01:56:32 GMT
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In-reply-to: rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Juimong Chen)

In article <4469@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, rjchen@phoenix (Raymond Juimong Chen) writes:
>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?
> [... description of fonts ...]

What you describe as "open capitals" is also known as "blackboard
bold".  Such letters are contained in the AMS symbol font MSYM10.
This font was produced with old Metafont (MF79), however, which only
runs on PDP-10 systems as far as I know.  GF files for the AMS fonts
are provided on the University of Washington's Unix TeX tape, in the
directory "amsfonts".

There is an even more ancient version of these symbols in a font
called BBB10, but if anyone is using that I would encourage them to
switch to MSYM10, which has better-looking characters.
-- 
Joe Weening                                Computer Science Dept.
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU          Stanford University