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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!blade!johan
  2. From: johan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Johan Wevers)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
  4. Subject: Re: mathematical symbols?
  5. Keywords: natural numbers, real numbers, LaTeX
  6. Message-ID: <4918@tuegate.tue.nl>
  7. Date: 31 Jul 92 09:34:11 GMT
  8. References: <4330@drsrv1.hmi.de>
  9. Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
  10. Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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  13. In article <4330@drsrv1.hmi.de> dej@drsrv1.hmi.de (Andreas Schulz-Dieterich) writes:
  14. >We're looking for the symbols of natural and real numbers in LaTeX:
  15. >                              __
  16. >             | |\   |      | |  \
  17. >             | | \  |      | |__/
  18. >             | |  \ |      | | \
  19. >             | |   \|      | |  \
  20. >
  21. >(ASCII offers very poor capabilities but you will understand.)
  22. >
  23. >Any hints appreciated. Thanks in advance,
  24. >-Andreas
  25.  
  26. Try: \newcommand{\RR}{\mbox{I\hspace{-1ex}R}}
  27. and \newcommand{\NN}{\mbox{I\hspace{-1ex}N}}
  28.  
  29. If you prefer the symbols in italics, symply remove the \mbox and
  30. use them in math mode.
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