Re: mathematical symbols?

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From: Robert Becker
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 15:15

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In article <4918@tuegate.tue.nl> johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers) writes:
>In article <4330@drsrv1.hmi.de> dej@drsrv1.hmi.de (Andreas Schulz-Dieterich) writes:
>>We're looking for the symbols of natural and real numbers in LaTeX:
>>                              __
>>             | |\   |      | |  \
>>             | | \  |      | |__/
>>             | |  \ |      | | \
>>             | |   \|      | |  \
>>
>Try: \newcommand{\RR}{\mbox{I\hspace{-1ex}R}}
>and \newcommand{\NN}{\mbox{I\hspace{-1ex}N}}
>
>If you prefer the symbols in italics, symply remove the \mbox and
>use them in math mode.
>

That's an ugly way to do it.  Better yet, do this:

	\input amssym.def  % This should be in your texinputs directory
			   % and is part of the AMS-TeX package.

Then you can simply do \Bbb N and \Bbb R and have it look nice.
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