[comp.text.tex] Natural numbers set math symbol wanted.

ttgr7@wsinfo11.info.win.tue.nl (Ton Brouwer) (05/17/91)

Hello TeX users,

I am looking for *one* specific math symbol,
which (somehow) I haven't been able to find yet.
It is the symbol for the natural number set ('N').
Here in Holland, we are used to writing it as follows:

  _
 | |     |
 | |\    |
 | | \   |
 | |  \  |
 | |   \ |
 |_|    \| 

Is there an easy way to inspect all fonts to search it?

Please mail directly to me or post your response to this group.

Thanks.

Ton Brouwer, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands.
(ttgr7@info.win.tue.nl)

ecogk@lure.latrobe.edu.au (05/17/91)

It should be available in some fancy fonts, like Euler. However, try the
following:

\def\N{\hbox{I\hskip-0.2em I\hskip-0.35em N}}

G\'abor K\H or\"osi

anita@brahms.udel.edu (Anita Marie Hoover) (05/17/91)

In article <1942@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> ttgr7@info.win.tue.nl writes:
=>Hello TeX users,
=>
=>I am looking for *one* specific math symbol,
=>which (somehow) I haven't been able to find yet.
=>It is the symbol for the natural number set ('N').
=>Here in Holland, we are used to writing it as follows:
=>
=>  _
=> | |     |
=> | |\    |
=> | | \   |
=> | |  \  |
=> | |   \ |
=> |_|    \| 
=>

I am sure it is part of AMS fonts, but I have not listed all
the font tables for those fonts.  Anyway you can create your
own,

\newcommand{\NN}{\mbox{\protect\makebox[.15em][l]{I}N}}

=>Is there an easy way to inspect all fonts to search it?
=>

You should be able to use a macro file called testfonts.tex to
be able to create a dvi file that has the font tables that you
specified.  I can't remember where I go that file.

=>Please mail directly to me or post your response to this group.
=>
=>Thanks.
=>
=>Ton Brouwer, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands.
=>(ttgr7@info.win.tue.nl)