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From: gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: METAFONT: Open caps?  Cursive caps?
Message-ID: <1063@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 88 13:12:30 GMT
References: <4469@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: gae@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Gerald Edgar)
Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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In article <4469@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Juimong Chen) writes:
>I'm wondering if anyone has developed an ``open capital letters' font
 ...
>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

The AMS has these fonts available for TeX.  The font msym (``additional
symbols'') has these letters, which they call ``blackboard bold''.
So real numbers $\Bbb R$, etc.
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