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Article #11327RE: 'Font' for number classes ("Reals", etc.)
From: Martin Maechler
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 19:16
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 19:16
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In article <KGK.90Feb21175919@aruba.cs.brown.edu> you write:
>
>Does anybody have a font, or otherwise know a simple method, to get
>what one might call the ``twin line left hand-side'' version of the
>number class symbols, i.e., the ones that looks like
>
>||\ |
>|| \ |
>|| \ |
>|| \|
.......
What I used quite successfully in my thesis is the following (in
LaTeX):
\newcommand{\R} {{\rm I\hskip-0.22em R}}
\newcommand{\Nat} {{\rm I\hskip-0.21em N}} %-- not the same !
\newcommand{\Z} {{\rm Z\hskip-0.32em Z}}
It works not bad with 10, 11 & 12 pts. You use them from within math-mode.
--
Martin B Maechler, Statistics, GN-22, U of WA, Seattle, Wa. 98195, 206-545-1627
maechler@stat.washington.edu HOME PHONE: 206-523-9488
(was @ Statistik, ETH Zurich, maechler@math.ethz.ch)
Martin B Maechler, Statistics, GN-22, U of WA, Seattle, Wa. 98195, 206-545-1627
maechler@stat.washington.edu HOME PHONE: 206-523-9488
(was @ Statistik, ETH Zurich, maechler@math.ethz.ch)
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