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Using the amsfonts option

 

The amsfonts style option will give you access to the \frak and \Bbb fonts and will also use the extra Computer Modern fonts from the AMS in order to provide better access to bold math characters at smaller sizes and in super- and subscripts.

AMSFonts typefaces. With the AMSFonts installed and in use through either the amsfonts or amssymb style option, the \frak and \Bbb commands are available. \frak switches to the AMS Fraktur font, while \Bbb switches to the so-called ``Blackboard Bold'' font. Only uppercase letters are available in Blackboard Bold, and there is no bold version of the font. Fraktur has both uppercase and lowercase letters and will become bold in a bbox.

Here are the letters ``ABCDE'' from \frak: . And here are the letters ``RIZN'' from \Bbb: .

Here is some math with superscripts and \frak. It demonstrates the output of \bbox{#1}.

You do not have the amsfonts or amssymb option selected, therefore the characters in the AMSFonts will not be printed using \frak and \Bbb.




Fri Feb 6 11:51:04 GMT 1998