William Stein wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:58 AM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Currently the latex methods for ZZ, RR, etc. all used mathbf -- plain >> boldface -- rather than mathbb -- 'blackboard' bold. See also the (not >> currently in use) file SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/doc/common/macros.tex: >> lots of mathbf, no mathbb. >> >> Is this an official style choice for Sage, or did it just >> spontaneously occur? > > I "officially" chose it for the same reason I chose mathbb in all the > books/articles I wrote, which is that numerous people in publishing > convinced me that it is a better choice.
I'm curious what the persuasive reasoning was. I've always liked mathbb. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
