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From: akf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jay Hinkelman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Font for number classes
Message-ID: <7882@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 26 Feb 90 19:12:23 GMT
References: <KGK.90Feb21175919@aruba.cs.brown.edu> <1071@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> <20798@netnews.upenn.edu>
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In article <20798@netnews.upenn.edu> resnik@grad2.cis.upenn.edu (Philip Resnik) writes:

>In article <1071@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl> lwj@cs.kun.nl (Luc Rooijakkers) writes:
>>kgk@cs.brown.edu (Keiji Kanazawa) writes:
>>>Does anybody know a simple method, to get what one might call the
>>>``twin line left hand-side'' version of the number class symbols?
>One easy trick you might consider: have it type N, then do a
>half-backspace (\!), and then type a vertical bar...  -- Philip

This will work great for the reals (_R_), and the 'natural number'
(_N_), but no quite so well for the integers, which are represented by
a 'twin-line' Z (from the German Zahlungen, numbers ... right?)

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				 Jay Hinkelman, akf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
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