Direc­tory tex-archive/fonts/cm/bbm

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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Files

Name	Size	Date	Notes
README	2480	2008-11-15 12:49:00
bbm10.mf	4135	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbm12.mf	4155	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbm17.mf	4164	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbm5.mf	4131	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbm6.mf	4147	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbm7.mf	4138	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbm8.mf	4140	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbm9.mf	4137	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmb10.mf	4137	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmbx10.mf	4148	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmbx12.mf	4165	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmbx5.mf	4148	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmbx6.mf	4158	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmbx7.mf	4160	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmbx8.mf	4153	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmbx9.mf	4157	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmbxsl10.mf	4162	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmdunh10.mf	4149	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmfib8.mf	4151	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmfxib8.mf	3895	1993-03-30 02:00:00
bbminch.mf	4244	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmsl10.mf	4148	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmsl12.mf	4168	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmsl8.mf	4154	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmsl9.mf	4149	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmsltt10.mf	4223	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmss10.mf	4157	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmss12.mf	4159	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmss17.mf	4182	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmss8.mf	4153	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmss9.mf	4155	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmssbx10.mf	4197	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmssdc10.mf	4205	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmssi10.mf	4179	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmssi12.mf	4181	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmssi17.mf	4204	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmssi8.mf	4175	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmssi9.mf	4178	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmssq8.mf	4194	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmssqi8.mf	4217	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmtt10.mf	4225	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmtt12.mf	4227	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmtt8.mf	4217	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmtt9.mf	4226	2008-11-15 12:44:00
bbmvtt10.mf	4228	2008-11-15 12:44:00
blbbase.mf	7499	2008-11-15 12:44:00
blbord.mf	963	2008-11-15 12:44:00
blbordl.mf	48155	2008-11-15 12:44:00
blbordsp.mf	6405	2008-11-15 12:44:00
blbordu.mf	43917	2008-11-15 12:44:00
gfbatch.batch	1347	2008-11-15 12:47:00
mfbatch.batch	2364	2008-11-15 12:47:00
test.tex	2138	2008-11-15 12:45:00