Index of /archives/text/CTAN/fonts/cm/bbm

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[PARENTDIR] Parent Directory - [TXT] README 2008-11-15 08:49 2.4K [TXT] bbm5.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.0K [TXT] bbm6.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.0K [TXT] bbm7.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.0K [TXT] bbm8.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.0K [TXT] bbm9.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.0K [TXT] bbm10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.0K [TXT] bbm12.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbm17.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmb10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.0K [TXT] bbmbx5.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmbx6.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmbx7.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmbx8.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmbx9.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmbx10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmbx12.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmbxsl10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmdunh10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmfib8.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [   ] bbmfxib8.mf 1993-03-30 09:00 3.8K [TXT] bbminch.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmsl8.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmsl9.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmsl10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmsl12.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmsltt10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmss8.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmss9.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmss10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmss12.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmss17.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmssbx10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmssdc10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmssi8.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmssi9.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmssi10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmssi12.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmssi17.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmssq8.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmssqi8.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmtt8.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmtt9.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmtt10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmtt12.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] bbmvtt10.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 4.1K [TXT] blbbase.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 7.3K [TXT] blbord.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 963 [TXT] blbordl.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 47K [TXT] blbordsp.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 6.3K [TXT] blbordu.mf 2008-11-15 08:44 43K [TXT] gfbatch.batch 2008-11-15 08:47 1.3K [TXT] mfbatch.batch 2008-11-15 08:47 2.3K [   ] test.tex 2008-11-15 08:45 2.1K
Copyright 1993 Gilles F. Robert.
You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file.
This statement added 2008/11/14 by Clea F. Rees on the basis of the email exchange archived at http://lists.debian.org/debian-tex-maint/2008/05/msg00040.html.

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A mathematician often needs special symbols to designate sets such as the
integers, the reals etc..

For the time being, the only fonts providing these special symbols have been:
 - the AMS fonts msbm (older version msym), which are intended for use with
Times and aren't truly what a mathematician expects (the stress is on both
stems instead of being on only the left one).
 - Alan Jeffrey's bbold fonts, which are sans-serif ones, with (almost) no
possibility of design variations for, say, a bold variant.
That was all, and in particular nothing for use with Computer Modern.

I was already working at that time on the project of changing the codes of
romanu.mf, romanl.mf and other files to add a 'Blackboard' variant to
Computer Modern.

                YOU HAVE IT ALL THERE !!!

The whole package contains five 'main' files:
 - blbbase.mf (the 'base') contains the supplementary definitions needed
for double stems etc..
 - blbord.mf (the 'driver') is fairly simple and only makes the necessary
calls.
 - blbordu.mf (based on romanu.mf): programs for uppercase letters.
 - blbordl.mf (based on romanl.mf): programs for lowercase letters.
 - blbordsp.mf (based on romand.mf and punct.mf): programs for the digits~1
and~2 and for parentheses and brackets.

There is also a whole lot of parameter files that are (almost) the same as
those provided by DEK.

For most of them, the only differences are
- change 'cmbase' for 'blbbase' on line~2
- change 'generate roman' for 'generate blbord' on last line
- add two extra parameters (interspace# and cap_interspace#).

A LaTeX(2e) package written by Torsten Hilbrich for using these fonts is also 
available nearby, exactly in ctan/macros/latex/contrib/supported/bbm/

I sincerely hope you'll enjoy using these fonts; if you get into problems
while using them, I should be reachable at

 _ _       Gilles F. ROBERT
|          Unit\'e de Math\'ematiques Pures et Appliqu\'ees
|  _ _ _   \'Ecole Normale Sup\'erieure
|   |   |  46, All\'ee d'Italie
|_ _|_ _|  69364 Lyon Cedex (FRANCE)
    |  \
    |   \  e-mail : gfrobert@umpa.ens-lyon.fr

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